Module 25: Psychoactive Drugs

Question 1

What are the continued substance cravings and uses despite significant life disruption and/or physical risk?

Answer 1

Substance use disorder

Question 2

What is a chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods?

Answer 2

Psychoactive drug

Question 3

What do you call the diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before experiencing the drug’s effect?

Answer 3

Tolerance

Question 4

What do you call the compulsive craving for drugs or certain behaviors (such as gambling) despite known adverse consequences?

Answer 4

Addiction

Question 5

What is the discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing an addictive drug or behavior?

Answer 5

Withdrawal

Question 6

What do you call drugs (such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates) that reduce neural activity and slow body functions?

Answer 6

Depressants

Question 7

What is the alcohol use marked by tolerance, withdrawal, and a drive to continue problematic use? (popularly known as alcoholism)?

Answer 7

Alcohol use disorder

Question 8

What are drugs that depress central nervous system activity, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment?

Answer 8

Barbituates

Question 9

This drug is from opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin; they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety?

Answer 9

Opiates

Question 10

What do you call the drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines, cocaine, Ecstasy, and methamphetamine) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions?

Answer 10

Stimulants

Question 11

What are the drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes?

Answer 11

Amphetamines

Question 12

What is the stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug in tobacco?

Answer 12

Nicotine

Question 13

What is the powerful and addictive stimulant derived

from the coca plant, producing temporarily increased alertness and euphoria?

Answer 13

Cocaine

Question 14

What is a powerfully addictive drug that stimulates
the central nervous system, with speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes; over time, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels.

Answer 14

Methamphetamine

Question 15

What is a synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, but with short-term health risks and longer-term harm to serotonin-producing neurons and to mood and cognition.

Answer 15

Ecstasy (MDMA)

Question 16

What are the psychedelic (“mind-manifesting”) drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input?

Answer 16

Hallucinogens

Question 17

What do you call a powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid (lysergic acid diethylamide)?

Answer 17

LSD

Question 18

What do you call an altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death (such as by cardiac arrest); often similar to drug-induced hallucinations?

Answer 18

Near-death experience

Question 19

What is the major active ingredient in marijuana; triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations?

Answer 19

THC