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| drugs act on the brain to affect mood, thinking, and behavior |
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| Waht percentage of all psychotrpic drugs are prescribed by non-pychiarist? |
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| the original name for a drug |
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| When marketed to sell th drug |
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| What is the trade name for Fluoxetine hydrochloride? |
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| Harrison Narcotic Act (1918) |
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| Law to control the despensation of drugs |
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To regulate how they are dispensed and used because they found out most of the drugs cold be dangerous and addictive
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| Why did they did they make the Harrison Narcotic Act? |
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Antianxiety-(anxiolytics)
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treat anxiety,panic phobias
Not alot of side affects...widely sed |
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Antipsychotics-(Neuroleptics)
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treats psychosis
- Allow for some thought clarification
- Very powerful and have more side effects
- More powerful than antianxiety
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Antidepressants
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treat depression
very popular
fairly safe
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Anticonvulsants
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treat epilepsy
Reproduce excitatory or increase inhibitory transmitters
Overlap into other categories
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Mood Stabilizers
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| treats mania, bipolar disorder, OCD |
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| Hallucinogens(psychedelics) |
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| How drugs move through the body |
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| What are the different ways to take drugs? |
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orally
rectally
injected
inhaled
absorbed through mucous membranes |
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| what is the fastest way to get drugs |
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| What is the slowest way to get in meds? |
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| what is it when you absorb drugs through your butt? |
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| Drugs are systematically broken down by the liver and kidneys to be eliminated, part of metabolism. |
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| What body parts break down drugs |
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Cleans everything
filters good stuff from bad stuff letting waste go out and keep good stuff |
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| Drugs being broken down are altered at the molecular level, and the new form of the drug |
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| What family is Antiaxiety medications in? |
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activates receptors of the neural inhibitor GABA(Gamma Amino Butyric Acid) slows down neural firing against
Natural anxiety reducing chemical
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If you take to much Benazodiazepines then this will stop working only take once in awhile
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| What is GABA's trade name? |
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| drowsiness, lethargy, disorientation,insomnia, mild anterograde amnesia. |
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| What is GABA's side effects? |
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Fast Rate of onset
in effect within 15 minutes
long lasting
fairly cheap |
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Similar to Valium
Moderate rate of onset drug
General effects |
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Multipurpose drugs
Overlaps categories
also be used as an antidepresent drug
good for PMS
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Panic disorder/ panic attacks
Anitconvulsant |
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| also as a drug to treat insomnia |
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| reduce physical effects of anxiety while allowing mind to remain alert. |
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| target effect to relax the body (for Dr. Fisher's wife after she had her child |
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| Powerful drugs which sedate, decrease reactivity to stimuli, diminish agitation and emotional arousal. |
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| To treat scitsophrenia….just dampen the symptoms….don't cure |
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| What is neuralleptics used for |
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| What family does anitpsychotics come from? |
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| block the neural inhibitor dopamine from activating its receptor sites (antagonist effect) |
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| What do Schizophrenics seem to have an excess of or extreme sensitivity to? |
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| Parkinson's symptoms, polydipsia, constipation, impaired vision, altered pigmentation of the skin, tardive dyskinesia, oculogyric crisis (eyes roll back in the head). (movement related problems...related to Parkinsons….effects the face and neck. |
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| What are side effects of Antipsycholtics? |
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| oldest, cheapest...heavily sedating...long list of side effects |
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| long list of side effects...irregular heart beat |
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| Clozaril (2nd generation) |
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| wider effect...treats positive and negative effects |
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| originally psychoitc ….treating bi polar as well….in smaller amounts to help treat autism |
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| restlessness, flight of ideas, eurphoria, insomnia, hyper-talkativeness, low impulse control |
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| mood swings between mania and depression |
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| What does mood stabilizers block and increase? |
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a metal which is not broken down by liver. Excretion controlled by kidneys, requires high salt diet. Broken down by the kidneys. Overdose of lithium can kill you. Salt helps the kidneys eliminate it. Excessive sweating or vomit can deplete sodium
○ Don't take ibeprophin with it.
• Side effects- metallic taste, weight gain, memory loss, thyroid enlargement (goiters), kidney problems. |
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activating receptors for the body's endogenous
highly addictive |
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| 3 times as powerful of morphine |
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| is one 1/10th as powerful as morphine |
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| is often used to help people come down from their addiction to the more powerful Heroin and morphine |
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created by making slight changes in the chemical composition, also highly addictive
Includes: Oxycontin, vicodin, percocet
○ Just as dangerous as centrally acting opiates if abused |
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| Peripherally acting opiate |
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work at the site of pain with anti-inflammatory and antipyretic (fever) effects (not at receptors)
○ Includes: Aspirin (Excedrin), Acetaminiphen (Tylenol), Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), Naproxen (Aleve). |
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