exam 1 Flashcards
The sub area of pharmacology that concerns the effects of drugs on behavior.
Psychopharmocology
_____________ is the body natural morphine.
Endorphins
_________________ refers to the actions people take that help them avoid developing certain health problems.
Primary preventions
______________ is the branch of pharmacology that concerns the absorption, distribution, biotransformation, and excretion of drugs
Pharmacokinetics
“within the muscle”
Intramuscular injection
______________ is when the same person’s regular use of more than one drug.
Polydrug use
What are the different routes of drugs that enter the body?
Oral, subcutaneous injection, intramuscular injection, Intravenous injection, Inhalation, intranasal, transdermal
What are the 3 ways of getting a false negative drug test?
Sustitution, adulteration,dilution
What are the different types of drug testing?
Urine
○ Blood ○ Sweat ○ Saliva ○ Hair
____________ is the dose at which a given percentage of
individuals show a particular effect of a drug
Effective dose
_____________ is the dose at which a given percentage of nonhumans die within a specified time
Lethal dose
What are the different types of drug classifications?
Origen, site of drug action, mechanism of action
______________ is the most significant inhibitory transmitter in the brain
gamma amino
_____________ is the most abundant of the excitatory neurotransmitters
Glutamate
The _______________ _______________ method is not yet yielded.
pass prevention
What are the 3 types of interventions?
Primary Prevention Secondary Prevention Tertiary Prevention
What are the advantages of the work cite program?
Service to adults who are still functioning well.
▪ Employees are a captive audience.
▪ Employees do not have to travel to hear messages. ▪ Employers benefitting employees improves morale.
Disadvantages:
What are the disadvantages of worksite program?
Cost
▪ Concerns about confidentiality
______________ is the scientific study of drugs concerned with all information about the effects of drugs on living systems
Pharmocology
___________ is the scientific study of behavior.
psychology
______________ is any chemical entity or mixture of entities not required for the maintenance of health but that alters biological function or structure when administered.
Drug
___________ are drugs that affect mood, thinking and behavior.
Psychoactive drugs
How a drug produces its drug effects is _____________
mechanism of action
___________ measures of the quantity of the drug consumed.
drug dosage
The way that drugs enter the body is _____________
Route of drug administration
An individual’s knowledge, attitudes, expectations, and other thoughts about an object or event, such as a drug is ____________.
Psychological set
a chemically inactive substance is a _____________.
placebo
___________ is typically based on a cluster of symptoms that is given a name.
diagnosis
any consumption of alcohol or other drugs and related events that does not meet the criteria for dependence or abuse is _____________.
drug use
Overwhelming involvement with using a drug, getting an adequate supply of it,
and having a strong tendency to resume use of it after stopping for a period.
addiction
A strong or intense desire to use a drug.
craving
The emotional state of craving a drug either for its positive effect or to avoid negative effects associated with its abuse.
psychological dependence
increased amounts of a drug needed to achieve intoxication, or a diminished drug effect with continued use of the same amount of a drug.
Tolerance
A definable illness that occurs with a cessation or decrease in use of a drug.
Withdrawal
a number of symptoms that occur together and characterize a specific illness or disease
syndrome
repeated use of a drug in interaction with environmental factors results in changes in the brain neural pathways that may heighten the reward value of that drug.
Sensitization Hypothesis
Communications designed for widespread distribution, such as advertisements, films, and printed materials.
mass media
___________ is outside of cell is more positively charged than inside
Rest
_________ is when positively charged ions come in the cell
Excitatory
__________ is when negatively charged ions come in the cell
inhibitory
____________ is when receptors that are coupled to ion channels and affect the neuron by causing those channels to open.
ionotropic
___________ cause the release or activation of second messengers
metabotropic
____________ is any substance that fits a receptor lock and activates
it
agonist
_______________ any substance that occupies a receptor and does not activate it, but prevents other substances from activating the receptor
antagonist
______________ resides in axon terminals of neurons that activate
the skeletal muscles.
acetylcoline
A Chemical structure that contains a single amine group
monomines
_________ is the key chemical to mediate physical changes that accompany arousal.
Norepinephrine
_____________ is Important to regulation of coordinated motor movements
dopamine
______________ Important in regulation of sleep
seratonin
_________ are large molecules in the peptide family
endorphins
_____________ is when a drug enters the blood stream
absortion
The process by which the body breaks down matter into more simple components and waste.
metabolism
The transport of drugs by the blood to their sites of action in the body.
distribution
The branch of pharmacology that concerns the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and their mechanisms of action
pharmacodynamics
__________ is computed according to a person’s body
weight
drug dose
The rate and extent to which a drug leaves its site of administration, and it plays a major role in the drug experience.
drug absortion
The portion of the original drug dose that reaches its site of action or that reaches a fluid in the body that gives the drug access to its site of action.
bioavailability
A standard way of representing drug effects
that result from taking different drug doses.
dose effect curve
____________ represents the change we are interested in recording.
vertical axis
__________ represents the range of doses under investigation.
Horizontal axis
how much the drug-dose changes before the effect get
slope
the peak of the dose-effect curve for a given effect.
efficacy
the minimum dose of a drug that yields its efficacy.
potency
