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What involves using a drug to the point that out affects ones family social relationships and work?
Substance abuse
What neuro transmitter does cocaine effect?
The dopamine transmitter
What has the greatest affect on sobering someone up?
The passage of time
What drug increases the activity of the central nervous system
Coke
What drug is not known to directly stimulate the brains reward center?
Heroin
What is an accurate statement about the effects of marijuana?
It causes lower sperm count in some men
What substance is just as addicting as heroin ?
Nicotine
Asking people with alcoholism to imagine repulsive sciences while they are drinking is what form of therapy?
Cognitive therapy
Genetic linkage studies have found an abnormal form of a gene for what type of neuro transmitter?
D2
Behavioral self-control training (BSCT) is a form of what type of therapy?
Cognitive behavioral therapy
What is often mixed with heroin?
Battery acid
What theory explains how the sight sight of a hypodermic needle can Induce a high in one dependent on heroin ?
Classical conditioning
What treatment model advocated by Alcoholics Anonymous is an example of what type of model?
Socio cultural
What are drugs that attach to endorphin receptor sites and make it impossible for opioids to have their usual effect?
Narcotic antagonists
Which method of ingesting a substance has the fastest effect on the brain?
Inhaling
What is methadone ?
An opioid
Chronic and excessive use of alcohol or benzodiazepines key lower the brains production of what ?
GABA
What is the worlds most widely used stimulant?
Caffeine
Sometimes when two or more drugs are so similar in their actions on the brain on the and the body that as people build up a tolerance for one drug they are simultaneously developing a tolerance for the other. What is this effect known as?
Cross tolerance
What is the combined effect of different drugs multiplying or potentitiating each other’s effects know as?
Synergistic
What is term is known as an addiction?
Substance dependence
Regular use of opioids may reduce the brains production of what?
Endorphins
What has adversity therapy primarily been used to aid in?
Alcohol use and dependence
What is often given to people who are trying to stop consuming alcohol ?
Naxolone