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Guess The Drug Category
The Guts
What is affected?
Odds and Ends
Famous People in Recovery
100
This drug depressed the behavioral inhibitory centers, nerve cells, and affects the center of movement and balance, and the breathing
What is Alcohol.
100
The brain is an important part of how we function and it controls some of these things in the body
What is Body temperature, heart rate, breathing, senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching, physical movements (walking, talking, standing, sitting), thinking, (dreams, reasons, and experiencing emotions).
100
This system in the brain is what drugs tap into
What is Brain’s communication system
100
When taking drugs, this amount of dopamine is released and it causes the natural rewards that our brain produces
What is 2 to 10 times.
100
A Famous African American Woman who had a huge TV Show admitted to using crack in her 20's.
What is Oprah Winfrey.
200
This drug targets brain cells, specially cannabinoid receptors, which is important part of normal brain development and function
What is Marijuana.
200
The brain is made up of this number of nerve cells (Between 50 - 100 Billion).
What is 100 billion (same as the number of trees in the Amazon rainforest).
200
Marijuana affect the cannabinoid receptors, and these receptors are found in parts of the brain that affect these
What is Pleasure, memory, thinking, concentration, sensory, and time perception and coordinated movement.
200
When your body and brain go into shock, screaming out for your drug of choice, and your brain believes that you need your drug of choice to survive, it is called.
What is Withdrawal.
200
This female Pop Artist sings songs as: "Sober," "Just Give me a Reason," "There You Go" overdosed on heroin in 1995.
Who is Pink.
300
These two drugs release abnormally large amounts of natural neurotransmitters, which are needed to shut off the signals between neurons
What is Cocaine and Methamphetamine.
300
The brain is made up of three parts, which are
What is Forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain.
300
Almost all drugs, directly or indirectly, target the brain’s reward system by flooding the circuit with this neurotransmitter that controls movements, emotions, and feelings of pleasure
What is Dopamine.
300
This alters brain cells physically, and it alters the nature of drug-using experience, from liking drugs to their euphoric effects to need them simply to feel normal and hold off withdrawal
What is (Increased) Drug tolerance.
300
He played in movies such as: "Good Will Hunting," "Peter Pan," and "Ms. Doubtfire" who had addiction to cocaine and alcohol. After years of recovery he recently was found dead after using and completing Suicide.
Who is Robin Williams.
400
This type of drug attaches itself to receptors, which are found in the brain, spinal cord, gastrointestinal tract, and other organs and it reduces the perception of pain
What is Opiates (also can take Codeine, Hydrocodone, Morphine, Oxycodone, or any other opiates).
400
Each nerve cell in the brain sends and receives messages in the form of electrical and chemical signals; once a cell receives and processes a message it send it to another one of these
What is Neuron.
400
Hallucinogens are thought to produce perception altering effects by acting on neural circuits in the brain that uses this neurotransmitter that is responsible for maintain mood balance that could lead to depression
What is Serotonin.
400
When memory disruptions by alcohol lead to this, they have been linked to inhibition of long-term potentiation, particularly in the hippocampus, by affecting GABA and neurotransmitters
What is Blackouts.
400
He is the lead singer of Aerosmith who had addiction to heroin, cocaine, and pain killers. After contracting Hepatitis C. and an intervention he went to Rehab.
Who is Steven Tyler.
500
This drug disrupts communication between neurotransmitter systems throughout the brain and spinal cord that regulate mood, sensory perception, sleep, hunger, body temperature, and muscle control
What is Hallucinogens.
500
These are the brain’s chemical messengers, and are carried between neurons
What is Neurotransmitters.
500
Where is the reward system located in the brain, and describe it
What is limbic system and it regulates feelings of pleasure.
500
Over time, brain regions responsible for judgment, decision- making, learning and memory begin to physically change, making certain behaviors “hard-wired, ” which leads to this behavior
What is Drug Seeking Behavior.
500
This white male rapper has had hits talking about his addiction.
Who is Macklemore.