Addiction & Society
Societal cost of this legal drug doubles the societal cost of all illegal drugs combined.
What is alcohol?
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) this is a chronic, relapsing brain disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use.
What is drug addiction?
This is the most frequently used legal drug in the stimulants category.
What is caffeine?
The relatively high use of drug misuse in this profession can be attributed to availability.
Who are medical professionals?
This type of drug user’s life often revolves around obtaining, maintaining, and using a supply of drugs.
Who are compulsive drug users?
This neurotransmitter is related to remembering the pleasurable effects, and ongoing use of a substance.
What is dopamine?
Numerous definitions of drug abuse are based in social values and opinions, not this.
What is scientific evidence?
What is MDMA?
This drug contains some of the characteristics of hallucinogens, depressants, and stimulants.
What is cannabis/marijuana?
This type of drug user is able to abstain from drug use outside of social setings.
Who are recreational drug users?
Nonuse and compulsive are the two extremes of this framework used to describe the fluid nature of people who use drugs.
What is the drug use continuum?
This occurs when two drugs work together to create an effect on the user that is greater than the sum of their individual effects (i.e., 1+1=3)
What is synergism?
Economic-compulsive offenses are illegal acts done to support this.
What is a drug habit/addiction?
To be diagnosed with a substance use disorder, and individual must meet two main types of criteria, dysfunction and this.
What is physical dependence?
This class of drugs produce feelings of well-being, euphoria, alertness and energy.
What are stimulants?
Peyote, a hallucinogen, can be lawfully used for this type of activity in the U.S.
What are religious ceremonies?
Certain environmental cues, internal feelings of distress/depression, and increased availability of the drug can result in this for someone in recovery.
What is relapse?
Fatal opioid overdoses are due to this medical event.
What is respiratory arrest?
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports this substance is leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
What is nicotine?
The three categories of drug classes are hallucinogens, stimulants, and this.
What are depressants?
This type of substance alters our perceptual functions (e.g., seeing things that are not there).
What are hallucinogens?
Amphetamines were often provided to members of this military branch to keep them awake during long, mile-high missions.
What is the Air Force?
Due to being such strong reinforcers, drugs are often used by some people despite this.
What are negative consequences/hard to self & others.
This substance created by the body can interrupt pain messages to the brain.
What are endorphins/endogenous opioids?
The repeal of prohibition in 1933 did this to the murder rate in the U.S.
What is dramatically decrease?
This is a form of cocaine that is cheaper, smokable, and fast-acting.
What is crack?
It has been documented in popular press and scientific research that this substance is often correlated with violent behavior.
What is alcohol?
In 1943 Dr. Albert Hofmann ingested 250 micrograms of this drugs resulting in him “sinking into a not unpleasant delirium which was marked by an extreme degree of fantasy.”
What is LSD?
Arrested development is a phenomenon experienced by people with an adolescent drug use history related to their inability to manage these.
What are complex feelings/emotions?
The three classes of prescription drugs commonly abused are stimulants, opioids, and these.
What are (CNS) depressants?