psycology

• Alcohol, also known as Ethanol, causes symptoms such as slurred speech, blurred vision, impaired coordination, loss of coordination, confusion, and long term health issues like liver and heart problems, and cancer.
• Narcotics, which include morphine, heroin, and codeine, are derived from the Opium poppy plant and provide relief from pain, sleepiness, drowsiness, but can cause loss of consciousness, coma, or even death, and possible contraction of diseases like HIV.
• Nicotine, which is found in the Tobacco plant, causes loss of appetite, hyperactivity, elevated blood pressure, improved alertness, but impaired complex problem solving, and long term health issues like lung cancer and breathing problems.
• Caffeine, which is found in Coffee beans, causes increased alertness and energy, but can cause jitteriness and irritability.
• Amphetamines, such as Chemical: alpha-methyl-beta-phenyl-ethyl-amine, cause wakefulness, reduced appetite, depression, restlessness, insomnia, and long term health issues like depression and restlessness.
• Cocaine, which is derived from the Coca plant, causes a feeling of pleasure, reduced hunger, deadened pain, and boosted confidence, but can cause restlessness, insomnia, headaches, nausea, convulsions, hallucinations, and delusions.
• LSD, also known as Lysergic acid diethylamide, causes euphoria, hallucinations, out-of-body experience, and distorted sense of time, but can cause flashback hallucinations and potential injury or death.
• Peyote cactus, also known as Mescaline, causes distortions of reality and luminous colors, but can cause mood swings, paranoia, and disorganized thoughts.
• Mushrooms, which are made of Psilocybin, have long term effects such as: distorted reality, confusion, and panic, but have short term effects such as: have mood swings, paranoia, and disorganized thoughts.
• Addiction to a drug means that after the

  a person takes that drug for a while, the body craves it just to feel

  normal.
• Depressants are drugs that slow the activity of the nervous system.
• Narcotics are addictive depressants that can be

  used to relieve pain and induce sleep.
• Stimulants increase the activity of the nervous system.
• A hallucinogen is a drug that produces hallucinations.
• Treatments for Drug Abuse include: detoxification, maintience programs, counseling, and support groups
• maintenance programs – taking small dosages of the drug or a milderdrug until withdrawal symptoms diminish
• Spontaneous recovery


  Reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response after some time has passed
• Extinction


  Disappearance of conditioned response when unconditioned stimulus no longer follows conditioned stimulus
• Discrimination


  The act of responding differently to stimuli that are not similar to each other
• Flooding


  A person is exposed to the harmless stimulus until fear responses to that stimulus are extinguished