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The brain and other parts of the central nervous system become less sensitive
What is Functional Tolerance
A consequence of a behavior that increases the likelihood that it will occur in the future.
What is a Reinforcer
The name for the low shrub that from this plant comes the powerful stimulant cocaine.
What is Coca Bush or Coca Tree
Once extracted from the coca leaf, why is it that cocaine has a stronger effect upon taking it rather than just eating the leaf itself?
Once extracted it's more potent; The routes of administration change once cocaine is extracted from the leaf.
What might chronic drug use result in?
What is Tolerance.
A general discussion of research on personality and drug use cannot ignore this topic.
What is Addictive Personality
A consequence of a behavior that suppresses or decreases its future likelihood.
What is a Punisher
Name the three different types of routes of administration for cocaine.
What is oral, smokable, and intranasal/injection
What is the place of origin as well as what mephedrone or "bath salts" originally used for?
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What is the symptom called that is shared by people who overdose on cocaine and amphetamines?
What is Formication syndrome
A person’s expectancies are based on previous experiences with a given psychoactive substance and its effects.
What is Drug Expectancy
Behavioral pharmacologists often study drug access as consequences for behavior in what is often called what.
Self-Administration Studies
What is bath salts
In moderate doses of cocaine and amphetamines, what are some behavioral effects one is likely to see?
What is increased talkativeness, sociability, alertness and arousal
Drugs such as amphetamines weren't recognized as dangerous until the 1960's. What were some of the earlier medical uses for amphetamines?
What is cold and sinus; obesity, narcolepsy, ADD, ADHD and heroin addiction
Acute tolerance of this drug describes it as being short-acting with highly pleasurable effects of an initial dose begin to wear off, causing more use.
What is Cocaine
What may develop after chronic use of cocaine and amphetamines?
What is dependence.
In what ways do stimulants affect the brain?
What is complex actions on monoamine neurotransmitters; dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin
What are synthetic stimulant drugs discovered in the 1920's?
What are amphetamines
With reference to the pharmacokinetics of cocaine and amphetamines, how do the routes of administration differ the experience of the user.
Oral/intranasal takes 10-15 minutes. Intravenous takes 30 seconds. Smoking a freebase form has an even faster reaction.
When people have been exposed to stimuli many times without the drug do these effects dissipate.
What is Extinction
What is important to understand drug effects in humans?
What is biological characteristics.
What is another name for bath salts?
What is plant food.
What are the three different names to identify a drug?
What is a chemical name, brand name, and generic name.
How is crack derived from cocaine?
What is a freebase cocaine mixed with cocaine salt, baking soda and water. It is then heated thus making hard rocks that are smoked