test 3 drugs

Question 1

what are the kinds of drugs

Answer 1

uppers, downers, and all arounders

-also performance enhancing drugs, antidepressants, inhalants

Question 2

what are some examples of inhalants

Answer 2

similar effects as downers

-huffing paint, glue, markers, etc

Question 3

what are kinds of uppers

Answer 3

cocaine, adderall, speed, nicotine, caffine

Question 4

what are kinds of downers

Answer 4

alcohol, marijuana, oxycontin, zanax

Question 5

what are kinds of all arounders

Answer 5

some kinds of marijuana, acid, ecstacy, shrooms

Question 6

what is WET

Answer 6

technique, but people think it is a drug

• turning things into powder or liquid and lacing it with weed or cigs
• formaldehyde (embalming fluid) can also be used in this

Question 7

explain oxycontin

Answer 7

problem in philly, dentist giving them out

• time released pill (can OD hours after taking it), used for pain, keeps working overtime
• allowed for use but doctors can prescribe a certain amount of this

Question 8

give some reasons people do drugs

Answer 8

geography/economics, natural inclination to altered states of consciousness, coping, genetics, peer pressure/curiosity, addiction, politics/education

Question 9

explain natural inclination to altered states of consciousness

Answer 9

• people want to get high
• even happens as kids (swinging and spinning until you get dizzy)
• there are ways to do this naturally, but if not will resort to drugs

Question 10

explain geography/economics/culture

Answer 10

where you are can affect what access you have to drugs

• religious reasons (ex. Native Americans)
• modern culture, cultural differences in how alcohol and other drugs are handled
• US has strictest alcohol rules, but also highest number of deaths

Question 11

explain coping

Answer 11

coping with emotions, stress and mental illness could lead to drug use
-also coping with physical pain (motivated by avoidance of pain)

Question 12

explain politics/education

Answer 12

laws governing drug use

-lack of drug education in schools

Question 13

explain genetics

Answer 13

genetic predisposition to addiction, cannot make you actually try something

Question 14

explain addiction

Answer 14

the various reasons (listed above) can lead to addiction and after you rid of the addiction itself the reasons still exist

Question 15

what is substance intoxification

Answer 15

use of drug changes emotion, mood or psyche

-can develop a maladaptive pattern of use, can lead to use disorders

Question 16

what is substance use

Answer 16

utilizing drugs

Question 17

what is the bias of attention to drugs

Answer 17

we only tend to pay attention to drug behaviors when it is a full blown addiction, but in reality they start a lot sooner than that

Question 18

what is tolerance

Answer 18

physiological and psychological, body and mind, habituate to substance

• gets used to something
• conditioning to something

explain chart on paper (tolerance goes up, intoxication goes down)

Question 19

why people tend to do more of something after they become tolerant

Answer 19

people will chase the original high, so will do more of something

Question 20

what is withdrawal

Answer 20

when you are addicted to something and you do not have it in your system, you experience symptoms until your body gets the drug back in its system

• body tells you that you need something
• the more tolerant you are the worse the withdrawal is

Question 21

what is polysubstance use

Answer 21

person likes to use drugs, does not matter what drugs they are
-pick another drug to get higher

ex. heroin addicts are given methadone to prevent withdrawal symptoms (affects neurotransmitters the same)

Question 22

what is the tolerance withdrawal cycle

Answer 22

perpetuates the addiction, keeps the body and mind coming back to the drug
-substance use hijacks your brain

Question 23

who is more aggressive a withdrawn drug addict or a hungry person

Answer 23

humans who needs drugs are as aggressive as humans who need to survive (food)
-maladaptive, addictive behavior

Question 24

explain the use -> abuse diagram

Answer 24

on paper

what is this line? what happens here?

• tolerance and withdrawal happen the whole time
• on the line the tolerance withdrawal cycle takes over and you move into maladaptive practice (not limiting or controlling it)

THE THREE C’s happen on the line

Question 25

what are the three C’s

Answer 25

continued use, control and compulsion

Question 26

what is continued use

Answer 26

using despite negative effects in life

Question 27

what is control

Answer 27

psychological (social lubricant and liquid courage) and physiological (chemically hooked) dependence

-losing control of use, “only have two drinks because i have to drive” vs. having a ton of drinks consistently and cannot control intake (use -> abuse)

Question 28

what is compulsion

Answer 28

compulsive thoughts about substance, ex. thinking about alcohol in class

Question 29

what are some stats about binge drinking

Answer 29

related to control and requires organization

• 38% of college students have binge drank once a month
• linked to sexual assault
• 80% arrests, 1/2 sexual assaults relate to alcohol

Question 30

what is binge drinking

Answer 30

past point of consciousness, intoxifying body

• cause mood and memory disturbances, affecting brain injuries
• a disinhibitor

Question 31

what are opioids

Answer 31

class 1 drugs (by government) - most likely to cause dangerous addiction
-heroin, crack, marijuana, etc

Question 32

what are some stats about opioids

Answer 32

2. 6 million a year are addicted

- 80% to pain killers and 20% to heroin

Question 33

how can you intake opioids

Answer 33

snort it, shoot it, eat it or lace things with it

Question 34

what can opioids do and how fast can someone become addicted

Answer 34

they can cut out pain
-used to give opioids to get people “high” before they died before advances in medicine

you can become addicts quickly
-part of it is because of withdrawal (can create pain level anxiety, fever, body ache, diarrhea, dehydration, etc)

Question 35

how can cocaine be taken and what does it do

Answer 35

snorted, injected or cooked

• produces euphoria and a rush of dopamine
• can mix with other drugs to get euphoria and no pain

Question 36

what are some stats about cocaine

Answer 36

3.9 million try it, 1.9 million are users

Question 37

how has cocaine changed overtime (legislatively)

Answer 37

known as rich person’s drug (very expensive, especially not cut with something)
-used to be known as the white mans drug

government left mandatory minimum out of this drug because they did not want to put wealthy people in jail

crack cocaine gets mandatory minimums poor people use this drug (minorities)

Question 38

how has the reasons for smoking changed over time

Answer 38

people used to say that they smoked for addiction/nicotine purposes, but now some JUUL users barely have nicotine

done bc: ignorance, social pressure, gives us excuse to leave and take 20-30 deep breaths