This was introduced to Europeans as an herb useful for treating a wide variety of ailments.
What is tobacco?
100
Marijuana is classified as this type of drug by the textbook.
What is "in a class of it's own"?
100
The CNS depressants include various prescription drugs referred to as this.
What are sedative-hypnotics?
100
Opium was traditionally extracted from the poppy plant by cutting these.
What are seed pods?
100
Alcoholic beverages form when yeasts act upon sugars in the process of this.
What is fermentation?
200
Higher rates of this is associated with lower rates of cigarette smoking among adults.
What is education?
200
This is the primary active ingredient in marijuana.
What is THC?
200
The bad taste and odor of this drug has kept it from being widely used.
What is paraldehyde?
200
The two major active chemicals in opium.
What are morphine and codeine?
200
Heating a solution of alcohol and water, then collecting the alcohol vapors and condensing them into a liquid with a higher alcohol content, is called this.
What is distillation?
300
In 1993, the Environmental Protection Agency declared that this was a carcinogen and increased the risk of lung cancer.
What is secondhand smoke?
300
The 66 chemicals that are known to be unique to the cannabis plant are called this.
What are cannabinoids?
300
The major advantage of the benzodiazepines over the barbiturates seems to be this.
What are greater safety margins?
300
Two of the prescription opioids that are being misused and abused at increasing rates.
What are Vicodin and Oxycontin?
300
In the U.S., national prohibition of alcohol sales was in effect during these years.
What is from 1920-1933?
400
Most of the research on the dependence produced by nicotine has focused on nicotine effects on this neurotransmitter system.
What is the mesolimbic dopamine system?
400
This syndrome associated with chronic users of marijuana improves if people stop smoking and remain in counseling.
What is amotivational syndrome?
400
The four most widely sold benzodiazepines are all longer-acting drugs sold primarily as this.
What are anxiolytics?
400
Although pain relief is now the major medical use for opioids, they have been used to save many lives (especially in underdeveloped countries) because of their ability to counteract this issue.
What is diarrhea?
400
Although the exact mechanisms for alcohol’s action in the brain are not completely understood, it is now believed that the most important of its many effects is enhancing the inhibitory effects of this.
What is GABA?
500
The biggest health concern for users of this product has been
cancer of the mouth, pharynx, and esophagus.
What is smokeless tobacco?
500
A consistent cognitive effect of marijuana, seen both in frequent users and in less experienced users, is called this.
What is a slowing of cognitive processes?
500
When benzodiazepines bind to their “receptors” in the brain, they enhance inhibitory effects of this.
What is GABA?
500
In a heroin user, negative reinforcement of drug-taking behavior can occur when withdrawal symptoms are alleviated by this.
What is another injection?
500
Heavy drinkers with Wernike’s disease (vitamin B1 deficiency) also usually exhibit memory deficits and other mental problems associated with this.