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Vocabulary
Depressants
Opiates
Stimulants
Hallucinogens
100
A chemical substance that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior.
What is a drug?
100
Level of alcohol in a person's bloodstream.
What is the blood alcohol level?
100
Opium is derived from this flower.
What is the poppy?
100
Drug found in coffee, tea, and soda.
What is caffeine?
100
Street name of methylenedioxymethamphetamine.
What is Ecstasy or X?
200
The body adjusts to the drug so the usual dose no longer produces the desired effect.
What is tolerance?
200
Sedatives used to induce relaxation and sleep. Common drug of choice for suicide attempts.
What are barbiturates?
200
Most powerful ingredient in opium.
What is morphine?
200
Drug responsible for over 400,000 death in this country annually.
What is nicotine?
200
America's most popular illegal drug.
What is marijuana?
300
Disruptions, both physiological and psychological, that range from tremors and immense cravings to anxiety and psychosis.
What is withdrawal?
300
Alcohol can ease these feeling temporarily but worsen them over time.
What is depression?
300
Has been used as a pain reliever for over 9,000 years.
What is opium?
300
Drugs that do more damage to the brain than heroin or alcohol abuse.
What are amphetamines?
300
Drug that can cause flashbacks up to 8-10 years after use.
What is LSD?
400
An abuser's tendency to center their life around the drug.
What is dependence?
400
Used in treatments of anxiety disorders and insomnia.
What are tranquilizers?
400
Chemically changed morphine, stronger and more addictive.
What is heroin?
400
Patches, gums, and sprays are all treatments for dependence on this drug.
What is nicotine?
400
Produced from resin on marijuana leaves.
What is hashish?
500
Drug use that becomes habitual and erodes one's normal functioning.
What is abuse?
500
Getting the alcohol out of a person's system and helping them through withdrawal symptoms.
What is detoxification?
500
Drug used in treatment of heroin addicts.
What is methadone?
500
An ingredient of Coca-Cola until 1929.
What is cocaine?
500
Effect of PCP that causes users to harm themselves or others.
What is behavioral toxicity?