How & Why Drugs Work
When the effect of a drug is enhanced by another drug or substance.
What is a potentiative (synergistic) effect?
The most common inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain.
What is GABA?
This is the name for non-poisonous, drinking alcohol.
What is ethanol?
More than 90% of the world's heroin is from here.
What is Afghanistan?
He was responsible for the mass production and distribution of cocaine in Columbia during the '80s and '90s.
Who is Pablo Escobar?
The capacity of a drug to do damage or cause adverse effects in the body.
What is toxicity?
The type of depressants that were introduced to society right after alcohol.
What are bromides?
The lethal level of alcohol by volume in the blood.
Hint - it is a range
What is 0.4 to 0.6?
This is when drug users combine heroin with cocaine.
What is speedballing?
Another name for IV methamphetamine drug users.
What are speed freaks?
The range in dose between the amount of drug necessary to cause a therapeutic effect and a toxic effect
What is the margin of safety?
It goes by the nickname "Mother's Little Helper".
Be specific with name
What is Valium?
The time it takes for the liver to oxidize 6 ounces of alcohol.
What is 12 hours?
Nature creates the active ingredient molecules in these types of narcotics.
What are opiates?
A designer amphetamine that is being studied for the treatment of PTSD.
What is MDMA (ecstasy)?
The process of changing the chemical or pharmacological properties of a drug by metabolism.
What is biotransformation?
They enter the receptor and make the action potential less likely to fire after benzodiazepines attach to the receptors.
What are chloride ions?
What is 4 or more drinks per 2 hours?
This is another name for intravenous injection of heroin.
What is mainlining?
The sensation of small insects crawling on or under the skin caused by the use of methamphetamines.
What is formication?
The maximum effect a drug can have regardless of the dose.
What is the plateau effect?
These low-dose depressants are known to relieve anxiety and promote relaxation.
What are sedatives?
A female movement between 1830-1850 that was dedicated to promoting moderation and complete abstinence in the use of alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
This is the agonistic drug in Suboxone.
What is buprenorphine?
The protein responsible for storing neurotransmitters in vesicles that is inhibited once amphetamines enter the axon terminal.
What is VMAT2?