Stimulants
This stimulant is found in seeds, nuts and leaves of a number of different plants.
What is caffeine?
This type of dose of stimulants includes the effects of:
What is a lower dose?
Confusion, depression, abnormal sleep, trouble with memory.
What is one long term effect of MDMA?
The best strategy to cope with the unpleasant depressed or anxious feelings associated with “coming down” from MDMA is to use cannabis or another drug.
Neurotransmitter responsible for producing feelings of love.
What is Serotonin?
This stimulant is a highly addictive chemical compound present in a tobacco plant.
What is nicotine?
This type of dose of stimulants includes the effects of:
What is a higher dose?
The sensation of insects creeping on or under the skin (from methamphetamine use)
What is formication?
How many medications have been approved by the FDA for the treatment of stimulant use disorder?
What is none?
The neurotransmitter in the brain that makes us feel pleasure
Dopamine
This type of drug can be prescribed by doctors to treat ADHD and Narcolepsy and sometimes used to treat Parkison’s Disease. Other types such as speed are produced and sold illegally.
What are amphetamines?
This stimulant and substance when consumed can result in elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure, and stroke.
What are amphetamines and some antidepressants?
A sharp increase in body temperatures (seen in ecstasy use).
What is hyperthermia?
Which of the following behavioral treatment interventions had the most evidence for effective treatment for people with a stimulant use disorder?
What is Contingency Management (CM)?
This type of stimulant is usually consumed orally.
How are prescribed stimulants (e.g. Methylphenidate) commonly consumed?
This drug is a fine white powder with a bitter, numbing taste often mixed, or ‘cut’, with other substances such as lidocaine, talcum powder or sugar to dilute it before being sold.
What is cocaine?
This stimulant and substance(s) when consumed can have an enormous strain on the heart and other parts of the body, which can lead to a stroke.
What is ice + speed or ecstasy?
Addiction, paranoia, aggressiveness, extreme eating disorder, visual and auditory hallucinations, or serve dental problems.
What are two examples of long term stimulant use?
Which of the following is not a principle for motivational interviewing (MI)?
This type of stimulant can be consumed by being snorted, swallowed, smoked, or injected.
How are illicit stimulants (e.g. cocaine) consumed?
Human-made stimulants known as bath salts. They usually take the form of a white or brown crystal-like powder and are sold in small plastic or foil packages labeled “not for human consumption.”
What are synthetic cathinones?
This stimulant and substance(s) when consumed together can place the body under a high degree of stress dealing with the conflicting effects of each drug, which can lead to an overdose.
What is amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis, or benzodiazepines?
The heart working so hard that it temporarily loses its natural rhythm (stimulants cause the blood vessels to narrow and the heart to work harder to pump blood).
What is fibrillation ?
Exercise was shown to have a positive effect on .... among a sample of people who had a methamphetamine use disorder.
What is depression, anxiety, and methamphetamine use?
Of all young people aged between 14 to 19 years of age, how many have used methamphetamine in the past year?
What is 1.6%?