DRUGS - CHAPTER 20 study guide Flashcards
Crystal meth
A potent form of methamphetamine
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