Signs, Symptoms, and Side Effects
What mental health diagnosis has symptoms that are similar to the effects produced by LSD?
What is schizophrenia?
-Escape from reality
-Boredom
-Inability to cope with anxiety
-Destructive self-indulgence (constantly desiring intoxicants)
-Blind compliance with drug-abusing peers
-Self-destructiveness
-Blindly using drugs without wanting to understand the harmful effects of drug use
-Self medicating
This list is made up of components of what phenomena?
What are the psychological factors of addiction?
These are referred to as the chemical messengers released by the neurons for communicating with other cells.
What are neurotransmitters.
The altered signaling of this neurotransmitter is a factor in all chemical dependence and addiction.
What is dopamine?
These categories are defined by a drug’s acceptable medical use and the drug’s abuse or dependency potential.
What are Drug Schedules?
This synthetic opioid is sometimes used as a pharmacological treatment to relieve withdrawal symptoms from narcotics.
What is methadone?
This learning theory of addiction describes the close association, or pairing, of significant, reinforcing stimuli with other less significant or neutral stimuli.
What is conditioning?
A substance that alters brain chemistry or neuronal (basic functional cell of the brain) activity is referred to as this.
What is psychoactive?
Prescription opioid and heroin use result in decreased pain awareness and feelings of euphoria, therefore mimicking this neurotransmitter in the body (*Hint: this neurotransmitter is the body's natural opioid).
What are endorphins?
This powerful analgesic is derived from opium, is ten times stronger than opium, and is the active narcotic ingredient in opium.
What is morphine?
Abuse potential, drowsiness, respiratory depression, nausea and vomiting, constipation, an inability to urinate, and potential drops in blood pressure describe the principle side effects of this drug class.
What are opioids?
These types of choices involve developing values and attitudes that lead to using drugs both habitually and addictively, such as constantly searching for drinking and drug parties and hanging with drug abusers.
What are high-risk drug choices?
The simultaneous presence of two chronic diseases or conditions.
What is co-morbidity?
-Increased body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, and "electric storms" all constitute this
What are side effects of LSD?
This is the principle ingredient of "magic mushrooms", which has similar effects to LSD.
What is psilocybin?
this uncommon, but life-threatening physiological symptom of withdrawal is where an individual hallucinates, is delirious, has high fever, and experiences a rapid heartbeat.
What is delirium tremens?
Together, the items in this list describe what phenomena?
Mixing other types of drugs with alcohol
Taking drugs regularly to help you sleep
Taking drugs to relieve boredom or get through the day
Believing you cannot have fun without alcohol or other drugs
What are danger signals of drug abuse?
These hormones in your body can sometimes act as neurotransmitters, and cause feelings of euphoria, well-being, and cause a decrease in pain signals.
What are endorphins.
This substance stimulates serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine receptors to serve as a stimulant.
What is amphetamine?
This stimulant is commonly used as an appetite suppressant, to aid in concentration, and is an active ingredient in some decongestants.
What is ephedrine?
This psychological effect that can occur from ingesting a psychedelic substance is described as a "crossover of the senses"
What is synesthesia?
This social influence theory explains drug use as:
-a form of learned behavior
-that social influence and the role of significant others says the use of drugs is learned during intimate interaction with others who, while using the drug, serve as a primary group.
What is social learning theory?
These theoretical explanations of substance abuse and addiction maintain that the organization of a society, group, or subculture is largely responsible for drug abuse by its members.
What are structural influence theories?
These drugs produce relaxation by enhancing receiving neurons’ responses when the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA attaches to their receptors.
What are benzodiazepines?
Muscle twitching, shortness of breath
cardiac Arrhythmia, and hypertension are all considered to be this
What are the physiological side effects of ecstasy?