1. Chapter Seven Making Decisions About Drug Use

2. Society’s Response to Drug Use
Development of anti-drug organizations
Famous personalities are used discourage use of drugs
Starting drug education earlier in grade school (pre-school levels)
Decrease of gateway drug exposure

3. Process of Drug Addiction
Exposure
Compulsion
Loss of control

4. Drug Terminology
Drug: substance other than food that will alter function
Psychoactive drug: alters moods or feeling
Dependence: physical or psychological need for the drug

5. Drug Terminology (cont’d)
Tolerance: acquired result of diminished effects from prolonged use
Withdrawal: response of body to regain normality without drug in the system
Drug misuse: unintentional inappropriate use of drugs
Drug abuse: intentional inappropriate use of drugs

6. 4 Methods of Drug Administration
Ingestion
Injection
Inhalation
Absorption

7. Effects of Drugs on the CNS
Neuron – brain cell
Dendrite – fibers receives electrical stimuli
Axon – conducts electrical impulse from dendrite
Synapse – location of reception site between axon of neuron and dendrite from another

8. 6 Drug Classifications Stimulants Depressants Hallucinogens Narcotics
Cannabis
Inhalants

9. Stimulants Function: elevate CNS
Examples: caffeine, amphetamines, nicotine

10. Depressants Function: reduce the CNS
Examples: barbiturates, tranquilizers, alcohol

11. Hallucinogens
Function: distort reality
Examples: LSD, PCP

12. Cannabis Function: produces a variety of effects (category in itself)
Examples: marijuana, hashish, active ingredient tetra hydro cannabinol (THC)

13. Narcotics
Function: relieve pain
Examples: opium, heroin, morphine

14. Inhalants Function: unpredictable, drunk-like effects
Examples: household products

15. Combination Drug Effects
Synergistic: exaggerates each drug effects
Additive: totals just the sum of each drug
Potentiated: intensifies second drug
Antagonistic: reduces effect of another drug

16. Drug Treatment Treatment programs via direct confrontation
Trained drug counselors
Private clinics or hospital setting

17. Chapter Seven Making Decisions About Drug Use