The severe withdrawal symptoms seen in alcohol withdrawal.
What are delirium tremens?
100
The central active ingredient of the coca plant.
What is cocaine?
100
A general strengthening of perceptions, particularly visual perceptions, along with psychological and physical changes.
What is hallucinosis, or hallucinogen intoxication?
100
The best-known form of cannabis.
What is marijuana?
100
A treatment in which clients are repeatedly presented with unpleasant stimuli while performing undesirable behaviors such as taking a drug (i.e. rapid smoking)
What is aversion therapy?
200
A pattern of abnormalities that can include mental retardation, hyperactivity, head and face deformities, heart defects and slow growth.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
200
A technique that makes cocaine more concentrated.
What is free-basing?
200
A hallucinogenic drug derived from ergot alkaloids.
What is LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)?
200
The most powerful form of cannabis.
What is hashish?
200
Systematic and medically supervised withdrawal from a drug.
What is detoxification?
300
Something that is likely to happen when one has been without heroin for a while, and then takes the usual dose.
When is an overdose?
300
A class of drugs available by prescription that increase energy and alertness and lower appetite when taken in small doses; produce a rush, intoxication, and psychosis in high doses; and cause an emotional letdown as they leave the body.
What are amphetamines?
300
LSD-induced sensory and emotional changes that recur long after the drug has left the body, sometimes over a year later.
What is a flashback?
300
The chemical most responsible for the effects of cannabis.
What is THC?
300
A cognitive-behavioral approach in which clients are taught to keep track of their drinking behavior and to apply coping strategies in situations that typically trigger excessive drinking.
What is behavioral self-control training (BSCT).
400
An alcohol-related disease marked by extreme confusion, memory loss and other neurological symptoms
What is Korsakoff's Syndrome?
400
A stimulant of the central nervous system that is used by about 25% of Americans over the age of 12, is as addictive as heroin, and causes more than 1,000 deaths each day.
What is nicotine?
400
An extremely unpleasant and dangerous reaction that produces enormous perceptual, emotional and behavioral reactions, and can occur even after a very small dose of LSD.
What is a bad trip?
400
A serious eye disease that might be treated with cannabis.
What is glaucoma?
400
An approach to treating heroin dependence in which clients are given legally and medically supervised doses of a substitute drug.
What is methadone (methadone maintenance program)?
500
The most common group of antianxiety drugs, which includes Valium and Xanax.
What are benzodiazepines?
500
A powerful form of free-base cocaine that has been boiled down into crystalline balls and is smoked in a pipe.
What is crack?
500
A widely-used drug at "raves" and clubs that may cause immediate psychological problems, significant impairment of memory, liver damage, heat stroke and interfere with the body's ability to produce serotonin.
What is Ecstasy (MDMA)?
500
A combined impact of two or more substances that potentiate each other, so that small doses mixed together can produce enormous changes in body chemistry.
What is synergy?
500
The most important neurotransmitter in the “pleasure pathway” of the brain.