General Information
Addictive drugs are called this because they can change a person’s mood or feelings.
What is psychoactive or mood-altering ?
The state of being high.
What is intoxicated?
High doses of depressants can lead to this.
What is death?
A sedative drug makes a person calmer, reduces anxiety and lowers this.
What is stimulation of the senses?
The more a person uses a drug, the greater chance there is of this.
What is long-term damage to the brain?
These energize the nervous system by making the nerves act more quickly than normal.
What are stimulants?
This is a state of severe confusion caused by stimulants.
What is delirium?
Combining two or more depressants create an effect than just increasing the dose of one. This is called.
What is "an additive effect"?
A hypnotic drug is commonly called this.
What is a sleeping pill?
It is possible that even the smallest triggers, such as a sound, smell, or taste, could lead to this.
What is a craving?
These drugs primarily affect the user’s thinking and senses.
What are Psychedelic and Hallucinogenic Drugs?
This occurs when someone believes he or she sees, hears, or touches something that does not exist.
What is an hallucination?
These slow down the nerve messages going to the brain.
What are opioids?
At high doses sedative-hypnotic drugs seriously slow mental and physical _________ ________.
What is reaction time?
This part of the brain is responsible for memory and emotions.
What is the amygdala?
These drugs slow the nervous system, which causes behavior and thoughts to slow as well.
What are depressants?
This is when minds trick you into believing that a real object is actually something else.
What is an illusion?
Opioids cause this and make it hard to concentrate.
What is drowsiness?
What is the name of the sedative-hypnotic drug is called the date rape drug?
What is GHB? or What is Rohypnol?
This important brain chemical regulates mood, emotion, learning, memory, sleep, and pain.
What is seratonin?
When certain drugs are taken in combination, they create an effect that is greater than simply increasing one of the drugs, this is called
What is the potentiation effect?
This is temporarily losing touch with reality because of the drug.
What is psychosis?
This is 1000 times stronger than heroin.
What is fentanyl?
Name two common sedatives.
What are Valium and Xanax?
A person who uses a drug over a long period can expect to have a long period of this before the brain returns to normal functioning.
What is recovery?