chapter 1 (drugs & behaviour today)

Question 1

psychoactive drugs

Answer 1

drugs that affect feelings, thoughts, perceptions, or behaviour.

Question 2

illicit (illegal) drugs

Answer 2

drugs whose manufacture, sale, or possession is illegal. (ex: heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, ketamine.)

Question 3

licit (legal) drugs

Answer 3

drugs whose manufacture, sale, or possession is legal. (ex: alcohol, nicotine, cannabis.) minimum age requirement.

Question 4

drug dependence

Answer 4

condition in which person feels a compulsive need to continue taking a drug. in the process, the drug assumes an increasingly central role in person’s life. bio, psych, and soci factors.

Question 5

drug

Answer 5

chemical substance that, when taken into body, alters structure or functioning of body in some way excluding those nutrients considered to be related to normal functioning (so not food and water.)

Question 6

instrumental use

Answer 6

taking drug for specific purpose other than recreational use (ex: stay awake, fall asleep, pain relief.) may be legal or illegal.

Question 7

recreational use

Answer 7

taking a drug only to get high or achieve pleasurable results. may be legal or illegal.

Question 8

drug misuse

Answer 8

prescription or over-the-counter medication is used inappropriately (ex: take too much/too little, mix with other drugs, share with friends and family.)

Question 9

shamanism

Answer 9

philosophy and practice of healing in which diagnosis or treatment is based on trancelike states, on the part of either the healer (shaman) or the patient. trances often induced by hallucinogenic drugs.

Question 10

ebers papyrus

Answer 10

egyptian document dated approximately 1500 BCE containing more than 800 prescriptions for common ailments & diseases.

Question 11

placebo effect

Answer 11

any change in person’s condition after taking a drug, based solely on their beliefs about the drug rather than on physical effects of the drug.

Question 12

patent medicine

Answer 12

historically, drug or combination of drugs sold through peddlers, shops, or mail-order advertisements.

Question 13

chlorpromazine

Answer 13

antipsychotic drug that was one of the first pharmaceutical treatments for schizophrenia.

Question 14

neuroscience

Answer 14

interdisciplinary branch of science dedicated to the study of the nervous system.