ALCOHOL
Name 2 primary factors related to whether an individual will drink and how much they will drink.
What are biological factors, socioeconomic factors, gender, age, and residence?
Drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin are used to treat this medical condition.
What is ADD?
This term describes babies who are born addicted to cocaine.
What are crack babies?
This drug is used to treat an overdose of an opioid.
What is Narcan or naloxone?
This leads to 500,000 deaths per year, double the deaths caused by alcohol, and hundreds of times the number of deaths caused by cocaine.
What is smoking?
This is the blood alcohol content (BAC) that determines if you are legally drunk in all US states.
What is .08%
This is the name of the date-rape drug.
What is Rohypnol?
This drug is referred to as a gateway drug.
What is marijuana?
This drug is 50 times more powerful than morphine.
What is Fentanyl?
This classification of drugs causes feelings of euphoria, alertness, increased focus, reduced appetite, and insomnia.
What is stimulants?
This is the term used to describe someone who loses their own identity in the process of obsessively trying to manage the trauma caused by the substance user in their life.
What is co-dependency?
This classification of drugs are used to treat anxiety and are highly addictive.
What are Benzodiazepines?
This syndrome occurs when pregnant mothers drink alcohol, and results in intellectual disabilities, developmental delays, decreased physical development, and congenital malformations in the baby.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
This drug is the most widely abused opiate.
What is heroin?
Using this drug can cause acne, balding, impotency, and intense anger.
What is an anabolic steroid?
Name 2 of the 3 theories associated with substance use mentioned in the book.
What are anomie, differential association, and labeling theory?
What are alcohol and tobacco?
Name 3 ways drug subcultures benefit substance users.
What is teaching them how to use the substance, safe dosing, handle side effects, obtain the substance, to avoid arrest, and provide a party atmosphere to enjoy the drug?
This term describes the pharmaceutical companies' role in pushing doctors to prescribe addictive opioids to relieve their patients' pain.
What is the opioid epidemic?
This drug may be useful in treating epilepsy, symptoms of multiple sclerosis, and nausea from chemotherapy.
What is marijuana?
Name 3 effects of drinking alcohol that make it unsafe to drive while intoxicated?
What is slowed mental activity, reasoning ability, and muscle reactions; lack of coordination?
What is amyl nitrate or butyl nitrate?
This group of drugs is the only one that does NOT cause physical dependency.
What are hallucinogens?
This drug was once thought to be a cure for morphine addiction.
What is heroin?
This term is used to describe the interaction between 2 drugs taken together, creating an effect much greater than either would produce alone.
What is synergistic?