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Substance Abuse
vocab review for Health quiz
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| what is a stimulant? | speed up the central nervous system |
| what is cocaine made of? | white powder from the coca plant that is mixed with other chemicals |
| Cocaine's 'positive' effects | surge of self-confidence and euphoria |
| cocaine's negative effects | depression, fatigue, malnutrition, cardiac problems, and physiological dependence / addiction... also HIV / hepatitis B from needles |
| what is crack? | more dangerous cocaine; gets smoked / injected, |
| crack's effects | everything w cocaine + spike in heart rate and blood pressure |
| How can you do meth? | smoking or snorting |
| how can you do crack? | smoked or injected |
| what is a depressant? | slows down the central nervous system |
| What are Rohypnol and GHB? | common date rape drugs that are colorless, tasteless, and odorless |
| what does Rohypnol and GHB do? | causes amnesia, muscle relaxation, sleep, and impaired motor skills |
| What is an inhalant? | a substance who's fumes you inhale or sniff to get high |
| What are examples of inhalants? | many common house cleaning products |
| what is SSOS? | Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome - causes instant death when sniffing an inhalant |
| What are the effects of using an inhalant? | liver / kidney damage, blindness, brain damage, paralysis, cardiac arrest, and death ! |
| What is a tranquilizer? | pharmaceutical drugs that are normally anti-anxiety medication. Make you calm down, euphoria, confusion, drowsiness, and lightheadedness. |
| What are the negative effects of tranquilizers? | hostility, blurry vision, hallucinations, lethargy, headaches, memory loss, irritability, impaired motor function, dry mouth, vomiting, sweating. |
| What is a hallucinogen? | they alter mood, thoughts, sense perceptions like vision, smell, hearing, and touch |
| What are the effects of ecstasy? | feelings of euphoria, heart rate & body temp. spikes, kidney failure, cardiovascular failure, damages brain cells |
| What are the effects of LSD (acid)? | hallucinations, flashbacks,panic, terror, depression, bad trips, injury / death. |
| what is a flashback when using hallucinogens? | the user experiences the emotional effects of a drug long after usage |
| what is a bad trip? | when you hallucinate scary things and feel a strong sense of terror |
| What type of drug is ecstasy? | hallucinogen |
| what type of drug is LSD (acid)? | hallucinogen |
| what type of drug is mushrooms? | hallucinogen |
| what type of drug is PCP? | hallucinogen |
| what type of drug is ketamine? | hallucinogen |
| What are the effects of mushrooms? | anxiety, fear, nausea, muscle twitches, increased heart rate/ blood pressure, bad trips, flashbacks, poisining, death |
| What are the effects of PCP? | distorted sense of time, increased muscle strength, feeling of violence, inability to feel pain, flashbacks |
| What are the effects of ketamine? | agitation, depression, cognitive difficulties, unconsciousness, amnesia, OD, unconsciousness, dangerously slowed breathing |
| What is HPPD? | Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder , lasting hallucinogen effects after drug has worn off |
| What is an opiate? | drugs from the opium plant that are prescription drugs used to relieve pain |
| What effects does fentanyl have? | can easily OD someone and makes drugs more powerful & addictive |
| Why do so many people die from fentanyl a day? | it is common sneaked into other drugs like heroin, cocaine, meth because it is cheaper, more powerful and addictive. It only takes the tip of a pencil to kill you |
| What type of drug is fentanyl? | opiate |
| What effects does heroin have? | it slows breathing, pulse, liver disease, coma, death, HIV / hepatitis B if using dirty needles |
| what type of drug is heroin? | opiate |
| what are steroids made of? | artificial testostrone |
| What are the effects of steroids on men? | muscle growth, weight gain, acne, hypertension, liver and kidney tumors, violent behavior, mood swings, depression, paranoia, shrinking testicles, reduced sperm count, baldness, development of breast tissue, prostate cancer. |
| what are the effects of steroids on women? | muscle growth, weight gain, acne, hypertension, liver and kidney tumors, violent behavior, mood swings, depression, paranoia, reduced breast size, body hair, depend voice, menstrual problems. |
| ethanol | type of alcohol in drinks |
| analgesics | pain relievers |
| binge drinking | when BAC is >0.08 or 5+ drinks in men 4+ in women |
| antagonistic interaction | 2+ meds taken to create a greater reaction than just taking 1 |
| dopamine | horome that is the brain's reward chemical -> motivation, pleasure, and focus |
| what type of drug is tabacco | stimulant |
| 2 main components of tabacco | tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide |
| what is mainstream smoke | exhaled by the lungs of the smoker |
| what is side stream smoke | smoke coming off the burning end of a joint |
| what is environmental smoke | second hand smoke in the air |
| effects of tabacco | changes in brain chem, increased cardiovascular lala, dulled taste buds and reduced appetite, weakened immune system, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, wrinkles, balding, smell like poopoo, yellow teeth, hairy tongue |
| what is smokeless tabacoo | dip / chew ; has nicotine and 28 carcinogens, causes oral cancer, leukoplakia |
| leukoplakia | white leathery plack stuff in the mouth that can lead to oral cancer |
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