Ch 6: Drugs
Prolonged, heavy use of what drug causes widespread deficits in cognition and behavior, frontal lobe damage leading to deficits in planning, working memory, and abstract reasoning, damage to the hippocampus leading to deficits in learning and memory, and the loss of neurons?
Alcohol
What drug, when used over a prolonged period, can actually cause the brain to shrink?
Alcohol
Which of the following is considered a stimulant?
Amphetamines
Which of the following is a stimulant?
Caffeine
slow down the central nervous system.
Depressants
True or false: Nicotine is classified as a depressant drug.
False
True or false: Psychoactive drugs are only man-made substances, like prescription drugs
False
In what category of drug is marijuana?
Hallucinogen
What are some effects of cocaine?
Increased confidence Mood elevation
Which class of drugs depress central nervous system activity, slowing heart rate, respiration, and digestion, and suppressing the cough center?
Opioids
What is the active ingredient in marijuana?
THC
True or false: Lung disease is a risk associated with smoking marijuana.
True
Stimulants Blank______ the nervous system.
activate
What is the most widely used depressant?
alcohol
Which of the following is considered a depressant?
alcohol
Long-term effects of amphetamines may include
amphetamine psychosis severe depression. paranoia.
Amphetamines are known to
cause insomnia.
Which of the following opioids is entirely synthetic?
fentanyl
A drug that is capable of producing pronounced changes in perception is a(n)
hallucinogen
Which of the following is classified as a hallucinogen?
marijuana
Hallucinogens produces changes in:
perception
A __________ drug is any substance that is naturally occurring or synthesized that produces a change in your conscious experience.
psychoactive
Any substance that is naturally occurring or synthesized that produces a change in your conscious experience is a
psychoactive drug.
Caffeine is considered a _________ drug.
stimulant
The classification of ____ drugs means that their main function is to increase the activity in the central nervous system.
stimulant
What category of drug is nicotine?
stimulant
In what category of drug are amphetamines?
stimulants