Drug Use
This type of drug use is overseen by a specialist to treat a medical condition. Also includes over the counter (OTC) drugs.
What is therapeutic use?
This is one of the most effective administration routes, and includes intramuscular, intravenous, and subcutaneous.
What is injection?
Our working definition of addiction for this course.
What is a loss of control over reward-seeking behaviour.
This class of drugs are pain relievers that create feelings of euphoria and have potential for abuse.
What are opioids?
This is a global anti-narcotics campaign led by the US government that led to prohibition and mass incarcerations.
What is the War on Drugs?
The state of having physical or mental control markedly diminished by the effects of alcohol or drugs.
This route of administration is when the drug enters the body orally and enters the lungs.
What inhalation?
THIS occurs when a drug does not work as well as it once did, a user needs an increased dosage for a desired effect.
What is tolerance?
This drug is considered to be a hallucinogen, a stimulant, AND a depressant.
What is cannabis?
This was a campaign slogan coined by first lady Nancy Reagan as an overly simplistic solution to drug use.
What is “Just Say No!”?
THIS is an intense desire to take a drug. It is a big reason why people relapse.
What is craving?
This ADME principle concerns itself with delivering a drug to its target site via the bloodstream.
What is distribution?
THIS is a group of symptoms that occur when a user stops taking (or reduces their use of) a drug.
The body engages in physiological changes to compensate for drug taking.
What is withdrawal?
This class of drugs has the lowest potential for abuse.
What are hallucinogens?
“I don’t do drugs because I like them, I do drugs to deal with my pain” What kind of reinforcement is this?
What is negativereinforcement?
The specific chemicals of the drug that cause the physiological change.
What are active compounds?
Goal of this ADME principle is to remove a drug (and its metabolites) from the body.
What is excretion?
THIS stage of the addiction cycle is associated with craving and drug seeking behaviour.
What is the preoccupation/ anticipation stage?
This class of drugs slow down brain function by lowering neurotransmission.
What are depressants?
The tight junctions of glial cells around blood vessels are the reason most drugs do not enter the brain.
What is the blood brain barrier?
Attempts to deal with physical/psychological conditions with the help of drugs (prescription or otherwise), alcohol, and other substances, and without the guidance of a doctor/specialist.
What is self-medicating?
In oral administration, most of the drug ends up being broken down (by enzymes in the stomach) into inactive metabolites before it even reaches the bloodstream.
What is the first-pass effect?
THIS stage of the addiction cycle is associated with repeated problematic drug use (escalating use, hazardous use, interpersonal problems)
What is the binge/intoxication stage?
Antihistamines, antipsychotics, hypnotics, muscle relaxants all fall under this drug category.
What are depressants?
Name a psychoactive drug that (when taken as directed) is not intoxicating.
What is: caffeine, nicotine, NSAIDs, etc.