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Legal and Illegal Drugs
Factors Affecting Drug Abuse
Commonly Abused Drugs
Choosing to be drug free
Mixed Bag
100
a "mood-altering" drug that has a chemical affect on brain activity
What is a psychoactive drug?
100
a combination of factors that influence drug use
What are risk factors?
100

What are two ways we know that drugs affect the brain?

Imitating the brain’s natural chemical messengers

Overstimulating the “reward circuit” of the brain

100
first step in treatment of drug abuse
What is acknowledging the problem?
100
a group of drugs derived from a poppy
What is an opiate?
200
The improper use of medicine-either prescription or OTC
What is drug misuse?
200
factor that reduces a persons potential for harmful behavior.
What is a protective factor?
200
speeds up the activity of the central nervous system increasing heart rate, blood pressure and alertness
What are stimulants?
200

a residential treatment center where former drug abusers live together and learn to be drug free

What is a rehabilitation or recovery center

200

What is the amount of time before withdrawal symptoms to start after last dose of heroin?

3-5 hours from last dose

300
Nausea, headaches, dizziness, fever, paranoia, panic, seizures, death
What are symptoms of withdrawal?
300
the desire to excel and use any advantage to do so
What is competitive pressure?
300
a powerful short active stimulant
What is cocaine?
300
a in-hosipital program where abusers gradually but completely withdrawals under medical supervision
What is detoxification?
300
region of the brain that controls balance
What is cerebellum?
400
the pathway of cells in the brain responsible for pleasurable happy feelings.
What is the "reward pathway" ?
400
internal causes of stress that may lead to drug use
What are personal factors?
400
Most frequently abused psychoactive drug. also known as a gate-way drug.
What is Marijuana?
400

replacing an abused drug with another regulated drug to create the same affect

What is supervised medication?

400
chemical released in brain along "reward pathways"
What is dopamine?
500
When the effects of a drug are canceled out or reduced by another
What is drug antagonism?
500

close relationships that may not be supportive

What are family relationships?

500
often eaten raw or mixed in food. Effects are similar to LSD
What are 'shrooms?
500
Engaging in physical activity, volunteering, and joining youth orginizations
What are alternatives to drugs?
500

What is a co-occurring disorder

Both addiction and another mental health disorder