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