Types of Drugs
Drug Facts
Drugs and the Law
Types of Addiction
Potpourri
100
/What class of drug is heroin?
narcotic
100

What is the class of drug... and for double points, the drug based on the side effects. 

Regular points: Hallucinogen 

Double points: LSD

100
Drugs with the highest potential for abuse and no medical use are placed in what schedule of the Federal Drug Control Act?
Schedule 1
100
This type of addiction results in withdrawal symptoms if the drug is removed.
physical addiction
100
What hallucinogen can cause flashbacks even years after taking a dose?
LSD
200
What class of drug is LSD?
hallucinogen
200

What type of drug leads to these side effects? Double points if you answer the specific drug. 

Narcotics

Heroin

200
What is meant by "possession with intent?"
You have drugs on you in such quantities that you will presumably sell the extra.
200
This type of addiction causes many smokers to return to smoking, even though they haven't had a cigarette in more than two days.
psychological addiction
200
What highly psychologically addictive drug puts "holes" in your brain, areas where brain activity stops?
meth
300
What class of drug is cocaine?
stimulant
300

Which class of drug increases alertness, appetite, and energy? (often abused by medical students)

Give an example of a drug. 

Stimulants

amphetamine, methamphetamine, cocain

300
Name two ways addicts addicted to prescription drugs often obtain them.
forged prescriptions, off the street from dealers, breaking into pharmacies, etc.
300
The type(s) of addiction normally caused by cocaine.
psychological
300
What is the most widely abused drug in the U.S.?
alcohol
400
What class of drug is alcohol?
depressant
400

What are some negative side effects of taking anabolic steroids? 

Immediate: decreased sperm count, anger, depression, irritability, shrunken testes, increased libido

After you stop...: flabby muscles, weight gain, mammary formation (moobs), lactation (milk production)

400
Most of the cocaine in the U.S. originated in what country?
Columbia
400
The type(s) of addiction normally caused by heroin.
psychological and physical
400
What is the most widely abused illegal drug in the U.S.?
marijuana
500
What class of drug is marijuana?
hallucinogen
500

What class of drug does Alcohol fit into?

Double points if you can give the specific name of the class

depressants

barbiturates or benzodiazepines

500
What forensic test is admissible in a court of law as definite proof of a drug's identity?
Mass spectrophotometry or infrared (IR) spectrophotometry
500
A Schedule 1 drug with very low psychological addiction and no physical addiction.
marijuana
500
Name both examples of a date rape drug?
roofies and GHB