Other Depressants and all arounders

Question 1

Sedative-hypnotic drugs are substances that induce depression on the _____________.

Answer 1

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM - these drugs tend to create a calming affect, relax muscles, and relieve feelings of tension stress and anxiety.

Question 2

What are sedative – hypnotic drugs???

Answer 2

Substances that induced depression on the central nervous system.

They tend to have a calming affect, relax muscles, really feelings of tension stress and anxiety.

Question 3

What are the three sedative-hypnotic categories of drugs:

Answer 3

1. Barbiturates
2. Minor tranquilizers
3. Other sedative/hypnotics

Question 4

When a barbiturate is combined with ____________ , the results are often fatal.

Answer 4

ALCOHOL

Question 5

MINOR TRANQUILIZERS

Answer 5

More prescriptions are written annually for tranquilizers than all other prescription drugs combined

Question 6

LIBRIUM

Answer 6

Introduced in 1960 widely prescribed “wonder drug” to reduce anxiety and allow individuals to cope with every day life.

Also had great value in providing relief from the with drawl effects of alcohol

Question 7

What is the first cousin to Librium?

Answer 7

Valium. It was chemically similar but 5 to 10 times more potent.

Since being introduced it has been one of the most popular drugs prescribed by physicians.

Question 8

HALCION

Answer 8

Once touted as the perfect sleeping pill it was introduced in 1982. However numerous reports began to surface suggesting side effects such as amnesia and agitation.

Utah woman killed mother

Question 9

QUAALUDE

Answer 9

Popularity has not gone away in spite of the fact that it is no longer legally manufactured.

3% of high school seniors have tried Quaalude.

Originally synthesized in 1951 in used in India for the treatment of malaria.

Question 10

Methaqualone (Quaalude)

Answer 10

Had numerous side effects and overdoses common and occasionally fatal.

Production of the drug for use in the US was stopped in 1983.

Question 11

Inhalants are generally divided into three categories all of which are potentially hazardous to the user:

Answer 11

1. Commercial solvents
2. Aerosols
3. Anesthetics

Question 12

Anesthetics

Answer 12

Chloroform, ether and halothane, as well as nitrous oxide.

Most are available in Dr. and dentist offices.