Types of Substances
The name for any substance other than food or water that changes the way the body functions.
What is a drug?
This is the main area of the brain that is affected by addiction.
What is the frontal lobe?
This is a molecule that is released by one neuron to relay information to another cell.
What is a neurotransmitter?
This is the legal age to purchase alcohol in all 50 states.
What is 21 years of age?
True or False: We have a neurotransmitter, naturally produced by the brain, that's receptors are the same ones in which a chemical in cannabis binds.
True Anandamide
This is the category of drugs in which nicotine falls under.
What are stimulants?
This is the part of the brain primarily responsible for memory.
What is the hippocampus?
This is the neurotransmitter than is most associated with addiction.
What is dopamine?
This is the legal age to purchase tobacco products in the US.
What is 21 years of age?
This is the toxic compound found in marijuana that passes quickly from the lungs to the bloodstream.
What is THC? Tetrahydrocannabinol
This is the category of drugs in which morphine falls under.
What are opioids?
This is the area of the brain responsible for judgement and reasoning.
What is the prefrontal cortex? (located in the very front of the frontal lobe)
This is the space between neurons where neurotransmitters work.
What is the synaptic cleft (synapse)?
This is what the acronym BAC stands for and it's meaning.
What is Blood Alcohol Content? The percentage of alcohol to blood.
This is where marijuana is stored in the body, also the reason it is detectable for 30 days.
What are fat cells?
This drug causes a 300% increase in dopamine within the brain.
What is cocaine?
This chemical produces feelings of pleasure in the brain.
What is dopamine?
These are the neurotransmitters that naturally occur and attach to opiate receptors in our brain.
What are endorphins?
For drivers 21 years or older, driving with a BAC of this or higher is illegal in all 50 states.
What is 0.08%?
This is the category of drug in which marijuana fall under, although another category has been in debate.
What is a depressant?
This drug causes a 1200% increase of dopamine in the brain.
What is methamphetamine?
This substance may lead to a brain disease called Wernicke encephalopathy, which is a severe, life-threatening disorder.
What is alcohol?
These are 3 examples of neurotransmitters in our brain.
Dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, norepinephrine, GABA, etc.
This is what the acronym DWI stands for.
What is driving while impaired? Could be under any substance.
Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome
What is a condition resulting from longterm cannabis use that is characterized by recurring episodes of vomiting, dehydration and abdominal pain?