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How do drugs affect the brain?
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Anything experiences as pleasurable makes the brain want to do it again.
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Psychoactive Drug
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A drug that changes the way the brain works by affecting chemical neurotransmission by either enhancing it, suppressing it, or interfering with it.
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What are the 6 drug categories?
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Prescription drugs, over the counter drugs, recreational drugs, herbal preparations, illegal drugs, and commercial preparations.
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Drug Misuse
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Involves using a drug for a purpose for which it was not intended.
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Drug Abuse
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Excessive use of any drug and may cause serious harm.
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Synergism
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Interaction of two or more drugs in which the effects of the individual drugs are multiplied beyond what would normally be expected if they were taken alone.
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Antagonism
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Can produce unwanted and unwanted effect-drugs work at the same receptor site so that one drug blocks the action of another.
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Inhibition
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Effects of one drug are eliminated or reduce by the presence of another drug at the same receptor site.
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Polydrug Use
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Taking several medications, vitamins, recreational drugs, or illegal drugs simultaneously.
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Intolerance
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Occurs when drugs combine in the body to produce extremely uncomfortable reactions.
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Cross-tolerance
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Occurs when a person develops a physiological tolerance to one drug and shows a similar tolerance to certain other drugs as a result.
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What are the different routes of drug administration?
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Oral ingestion, inhalation, injection, transdermal, or suppositories.
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