Stimulants
What do stimulants do to the brain and body?
they energize the nervous system, speeding up the persons actions, senses, and thoughts.
What are the two primary groups of depressents?
Opoids, and sedative-hypnotics.
What effect do Psychadellic and Hallucinogenic drugs have on the body and brain?
These drugs change the way people understand and experience the world around them. This can also cause different experiences, even with the same drug and same dose.
Why are sedative drugs often prescribed by a doctor
Makes them calmer, reduces anxeity, and lowers stimulation
What is a stimulant drug that starts with the letter C
Crack Cocaine,
what are some examples of stimulant drugs?
Nicotine, caffeine, cocaine, methamphetamine, and amphetamines
How do depressents effect the nervous system? in high and low doses?
low doses reduce anxeity, or pain and in high doses they reduce reaction time, and the ability to think clearly.
If a person is feeling scared, and insecure what type of experience will they have if they are using Psychedelic drugs?
They may be frightened, and cause panic
A sleeping Pill, makes a person fall asleep faster
This drug is considered a depressent and it starts with the letter x
Xanax
What do high doses of stimulants do to the brain and body?
they become tense, agitated, nervous and on edge, they may also become suspiscous, and paranoid or violent.
What are Opioid Drugs used for?
to reduce pain by slowing down the nerve messages goling to the brain, this can also reduce anxeity.
What are some other dangerous effects psychedelic drugs can cause for a person.
It distorts their sense of time and or reality, their body and even their identity.
What is a dangerous side effect of a sedative hypnotic drug and its intoxication?
It impairs people behavior, judgement, and memory. Speech becomes slurred, and they may be unable to walk straight.
This drug is considered to be a sedative hypnotic drug that starts with the letter E
Ecstasy
Why is Crack cocaine more dangerous than caffeine, or nicotine.
The way that it enters the body, and the amount used in one single dose is more potent.
Why are opioids dangerous in large doses?
They stop pain both emotionally and physically causing the person to not care about other people or events in their lives.
What is another form of Psychedelics that can be very dangerous
PCP Psychedelics- they distort nerve messagesm and sensory messages causng people to misinterpret reality
After taking HIGH high doses of sedative-hypnotic drugs what are some adverse reactions to the medication?
some may become excited , agitated, agressive and violent. They may forget the entire episode.
this drug is in the opioid family and it starts with the letter H
Heroin
Name one physical and one Psychological effect of Stimulants
Physical- Repeating words, and behaviors, pacing the floor feel confined, talkng alot, shouting, racing thoughts.
Psychological-They change moods rapidly like going from feeling confident, to being depressed
What are withdrawal effects of opioids?
runny nose, goose bumps, sweating,, diarreah, yawning, fever, and insomnia, others may feel like they are crawling out of their own skin, this is caused by anxeity.
What are the effects of PCP amd Ketamine?
they stop pain sensatioins amd stop sensory messages, this drug disconnects ones mind from their body, they can have high adrenaline levels, pcp stops them from feeling pain, so they do not stop even if they have several broken bones in their body.
What are some withdrawal symptoms from Sedative-Hypnotic drugs?
In order to become dependant they must take the drugs for weeks or months straight, especially for long periods of time, they include rapid heart rate, heavy sweating, agitation iirritatibality, amxeotu, apprehension, insomnia, nausea, vomiting and tremors they can begin as soon as 4 days after the last drug was taken,
This drug is considered to be very dangerous because it distorts time and reality and it starts with the letter P
PCP