Vocab
Drug
What is a substance that when ingested has a non-nutrional physiological impact on our body?
How alcohol is made
What is from the fermentation of sugars in fruits and vegetables by yeast?
Hallucinogen
What are a class of drugs that cause distortion of thoughts, feelings, time, and senses when ingested. Examples include LSD, Magic Mushrooms, and classically cannabis*
Tolerance
What is our body's response to a continued use of a particular drug, we build a tolerance to the drug in question, and therefore need more of the drug for the desired effects?
Marihuana tax act of 1937 what is it, did it make smoking cannabis illegal?
OTC Drug 3 examples
What is over the counter drug? What are drugs that we can go into a store and buy them right "over the counter"? What is Ibuprofen, Nyquil, laxatives, pepto bismo, etc..
Did people traditionally smoke cannabis in America before 1910, what did they use it for
What was no, they used it for rope, clothes, wound dressings, as well as for medicinal tinctures to ease pain?
Stimulant
What are a class of drugs that excite the central nervous system, put is in a state of heightened alertness, increase our heart rate, and decrease our appetite?
Controlled substance act of 1970
What is a law enacted by Richard Nixon that put most drugs into a class of 5 different schedules from most addictive and least medicinal value to least addictive and most medicinal value? 1 being the 'worst' 5 being the 'best'?
Piece of propaganda that finally led to the marihua tax act of 1937
Were they being completely truthful with the effects that cannabis had on people in the film
What is reefer madness?
What is no they over exaggerated the negative effects in an effort to change the public's perception?
Legal/Recreational Drugs
What are drugs that we can buy legally in stores giving we are of age? What are alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis in select states?
What happened to the soldiers in the Civil War that were given morphine as a pain reliever from injuries
What was they would have their pain relieved short-term, but when they came off of the morphine they had serious withdrawals knows as 'soldiers disease'
What are a class of drugs that slow down our central nervous system, slow down the messages between the brain and body, decrease our heart rate, and reduce our inhibitions? Examples include alcohol, xanax, and benzos.
Cold Turkey
What is when a person quits ingesting a substance right away, at once, with no wheening?
Explain the process of an average joe person becoming addicted to lethal opioids
What is Joe hurts his shoulder during a basketball game, Joe needs to get labrum surgery, Joe gets the surgery and his doctor prescribes him a 30 day supply of oxycodone, Joe takes the medicine for pain relief and his arm feels okay, after the medicine runs out, Joe wants more, Joe's doctor doesn't prescribe him anymore, so Joe looks for an illegal drug dealer to get his fix, that drug dealer knowingly or unknowingly sells Joe fentanyl and he over doses?
Prescription Drugs
What are drugs that people need to be prescribed by a doctor in order to get access to?
Has heroin always been illegal
What is no, heroin was sold commercially in stores as a cough suppressant in the early 1900's? By the pharmaceutical company Bayer, the same people who make aspirin?
Opioids
What are a class of drugs derived from the opium poppy plant that reduce feelings of pain, provide feelings of euphoria, are extremely addictive, and are the cause of the drug overdose epidemic we are facing in America?
When a person becomes psychologically dependent on a substance their brain needs it in their system in order to feel 'normal' and without it, their brain will trick their body into feeling sick?
Explain the good and evil of doctors prescribing drugs
What is the good side people can be healed from bacterial infections, rashes, saved from allergic reactions, etc.. What is the bad side people are potentially over prescribed stimulants to treat ADHD, people are over prescribed opioids to manage minor pain, people are given blood pressure medication at the first sign of hypertension rather than addressing the root cause? (moving and nutrition)
Illicit Drugs
What are drugs that are illegal, produced/grown illegally, without oversight of safety standards or anything? Examples include Meth, Heroin, MDMA, Cocaine, etc..
Amphetamines are used to treat what today.....
Amphetamines first gained traction by the German army for what reason
What is to treat ADHD and ADD in children?
What is their ability to keep German soldiers awake and ready to go to war in state of heightened alertness?
Synthetic Opioids
What are a class of drugs completly man made in a lab that mimic the natural opium drugs, however they are much more potent, addictive, and fatal?
Physical Dependance
What is when a person's body becomes physically dependent on a drug being in the person's system? People with serious physical dependancies can literally die if they try to quit their substance 'cold turkey'
Your thoughts on drugs as a whole, pros, cons, ups, downs, uses, abuses, history, all of it
What is...........