Ch 6: Drugs

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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


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