DRUGS - CHAPTER 20 study guide Flashcards
Crystal meth
A potent form of methamphetamine
Crack
Solid form of cocaine
Date rape drug
Rohypnol
Dependence
The degree of an illegal and addicting drugs legal use
Designer drug
Refers to a class of drugs that are specifically designed to emulate controlled substances
Drug carrier profile and
The preclude of observing suspected drug traffickers to develope a pattern of behavior that would constitute legal cause for w stop and search
Flash back
A temporary reoccurrence of psychedelic experience
Freebase
A method of ingesting cocaine in a purified form
Pharmaceutical diversion
The act of diverting controlled drugs from legitimate channels
Scammer
People who fraud entry attempt to obtain prescriptions for controlled drugs
Tolerance
A physical condition that developed when a person needs increasing doses of s drug in order to experience its initial effects
Physiological dependence
Physical addiction to a particular drug.
PSYCHOLOGICAL dependence
Precedes the physical dependence phase as it refers to ones desire to continue use of a drug.
They think they need it
Withdraw syndrome
A series of adverse physical symptoms that appear when a drug to which a user is physically addicted to is stopped abruptly
Symptoms of withdraw
4
Vomiting
Swearing
Convulsions
Fever.
Drug synergism
A severe physical reactions that results when a user ingests more then 1 type of drug at a time
What is the common cause of overdose
Drug synergism
Types of cannabis 3
Marijuana
Hashish
Hashish oil
Marijuana
Tobacco like substance produced by frying leaves and flowering tops of plants
Hashish
Resinous secretions of the cannabis plant collected dried and compressed into cakes or cookie like sheets smoked in pipes
Hashish oil
Repeated extraction of cannabis plant material that yields a dark syrup like liquid which is placed into cigarettes and smoked
Lasts up to 4 hours
Natural origin narcotics
Organic narcotics are derived from opium poppy. A milky fluid that is extracted from the poppy plant is raw opium base and is very addictive
Base refined to make opium , Herion , morphing , codine
Synthetic narcotics
Produced in a lab.
Herion
White and brown powder form. Physical addiction develops rapidly after regular use. It’s diluted by adding mill , sugar , or baking soda