Categories of Drugs
Pupils dilate, blood vessels constrict and wakefulness is common.
What is a stimulant?
A person’s diminished response to a drug, which occurs when the drug is used repeatedly and the body adapts to the continued presence of the drug.
What is tolerance?
Heroin use has been on the rise and is tied to an abuse of what type of prescription pills.
What is prescription painkillers?
Drugs that are not used for medicinal purposes, but are instead used for pleasure.
What are recreational drugs?
Highly addictive both physically and psychologically. Designed to relieve pain.
What is a narcotic?
This is the stage of addiction where a person would show withdrawal symptoms when they stop using the drug.
What is dependence?
Poses the greatest risk of lethal overdose by enabling large amounts of heroin into the bloodstream at once.
What is injection?
This drug is a powerful stimulant that causes your blood vessels to constrict immediately. This drug is snorted and can cause one’s nose to collapse.
What is cocaine?
These drugs are highly unpredictable and are very different for each user. Alter one’s perceptions, feelings and thoughts.
What is a hallucinogen?
The taking of a drug or over-the counter medication for its intended purpose but not in the proper amount, strength or duration.
What is drug misuse?
Heroin is a drug that would fall into these 2 drug categories.
What is a narcotic and a depressant?
A prescription stimulant known as “study drugs.”
What is adderall?
This category of drugs can literally cause an individual to suffocate and die.
What is an inhalant?
An individual uses a substance to self-administer treatment for physical or psychological ailments.
What is self-medication?
A user’s body adapts to the drug’s presence-causing withdrawal symptoms such as muscle and bone pain, diarrhea and vomiting.
What is physical dependence?
Synthetic hormone that resembles testosterone.
What are anabolic steroids?
Referred to as antidepressants.
What is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)?
The route of administration of how drugs get to your brain from slowest to fastest.
What is skin absorption, orally, mucous membranes, injection & inhalation?
This drug is 50-100 times more potent than morphine. 25-50 times more potent than heroin.
What is fentanyl?
Central nervous system stimulant. It is the world’s most widely consumed psychoactive drug.
What is caffeine?