chapter 12 terms 2
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- amphetamines
- a group of stimulating durgs that produce heightened levels of energy and in large doses, nervousness, sleeplessness and paranoid delusions
- Antabuse (disulfiram)
- drug that makes the drinking of alcohol produce nausea and other unpleasant effects
- barbiturates
- a class of synthetic sedative drugs that are a addictive and in large doses can cause death by almost completly relaxing the diaphragm
- clonidine
- an antihypertensive drug that shows some promise in helping people wean themselves from substance dependence
- coccaine
- a pain reducing, stimulating and addictive alkaloid obtained from coca leaves, which increases mental powers, produces euphora, heightens sexual desire, and in large doses causes paranoia and hallucinations
- controlled drinking
- a pattern of alochol consumption that is moderate and avoid the extremes of total abstinence and of inebriation
- covert sensitization
- a form of aversion therapy in which the person is told to imagine undesirably attractive situations and activities while unpleasant feelings are being induced by imagery
- cross dependent
- acting on the same receptors as methadone does with heroin
- detoxification
- the initial stage in weaining an addicted person from a drug involves medical supervision of the sometimes painful withdrawl
- ecstasy
- a relatively new hallucinogen that is chemically similar to mescaline and the amphetamines
- fetal alcohol syndrome
- retarded growth of the devloping fetus and infant, cranial/facial/limb anoamlities and mental retardation caused by heavy consumption of alochol during pregancy
- delirium treatments
- 1 of the withdrawl symptoms that sometimes occurs when a period of heavy alcohol consuption is terminated; marked by fever, sweating, trembling, cognitive impairment, and hallucinations
- flashback
- an unpredictable reoccurence of psychadellic experiences from earlier drug trip
- hallucination
- perceptions in any sensory modality without relevant and a deprate external stimuli
- hashish
- the dried regign of the cannabis plant, stronger in effects than the dried leaves and stems that constitute marajuana
- heroin
- extremely addictive narcotic drug derived from morphine
- heroin antagonist
- drugs such as naloxone that prevent a heroi user from experiencing any high
- heroin substitutes
- narcotics such as methadone that are cross dependent with heroin and thus replace it and the bodys craving for it
- LSD
- d-lysergic and diethylamide, a drug synthesized in 1938 and discovered by accident to be a hallucinogen in 1943
- marijuana
- a drug derived from the dried leaves/stems of the female hemp plant Cannabis sativa
- mescaline
- a hallucinogen and alkaloid that is the active ingredient of peyote
- methadone
- a synthetic addictive heroin substitute for treating heroin addicts that acts as a substitute for heroin by eliminating its effects and the vraving for it
- morphine
- an addictive narcotic alkoid extracted from poium, used primarily as an analgesic and as a sedative
- nicotine
- the principal alkaloid of tobacco 9an addicting agent)
- nitrous oxide
- a gas that when inhaled produces euphoria and sometimes giddiness
- opiates
- a group of addictive sedatives that in moderate doses relieve pain and induce sleep
- opium
- 1 of the oppiates the dried milky juice obtained from the immature fruit of the opium poppy. the addictive narcotic produces euphoria and drowsiness and reduces pain
- polydrug abuse
- the misuse of more than 1 drug at a time such as drinking heavily and taking cocaine
- psilocybin
- a psychedelic drug extrated from the mushroom psilocybe mexicana
- secondhand smoke
- sidestream smoke, smoke from burning end of the cigerette which contains higher cones of ammonia, carbon monoxied, nicotine, and tar than does the inhaled smoke
- sedatives
- drug that slows bodily activities especially those of the CNS reduces pain and tension and to induce relaxation and sleep
- stimulants
- drug that increases altertness and motor activity and at the same time reduces fatique allowing an individual to remain awake for an extended period of time ex coccaine and amphetamines
- substance abuse
- use of a drug to such an extent that the person is often intoxicated throughout the day and fails in important obligations and in attempts to abstain by there is no physiological dependence
- substance dependence
- the abuse of a drug sometimes accompanied by a physiological dependence on it, made evident by tolerance withdrawl symptoms, also called addiction
- tolerance
- a phsyiological process in which greater and greater amounts of an addictive drug are required to produce the same effect
- withdrawl
- negative physiological and psychological reactions evidenced when a person suddenly stops taking an addictive drug, cramps, restlessness, and even death are examples