Psychedelics

Vocabulary

• ACUTE - (ADJ.) having a sudden onset, sharp rise, and short course (Merriam Webster)

• ADDICTION - (N.) a condition in which there is uncontrolled use of a substance despite harmful consequence (American Psychiatric Association)

• ALCOHOLISM - (N.) an excessive and repetitive drinking of alcoholic beverages to the extent that the drinker repeatedly is harmed or harms others (Brittanica)

• AWE - (N.) a feeling of great respect sometimes mixed with fear or surprise (Cambridge Dictionary)

• DECENTRALIZATION - (N.) breaking up a concentration in a maincenter and distribute more widely (Collins Dictionary)

• DEPRESSION - (N.) a serious mood disorder that causes severe symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities (National Institute of Mental Health)

• DIZZINESS - (N.) a temporary feeling that your sense of balance is not good and that you may fall down (Cambridge Dictionary)

• DOSAGE - (N.) the amount of medicine that you should take at one time (Cambridge Dictionary)

• DYSPHORIA - (N.) severe unhappiness, especially a person's feeling of being very uncomfortable in their body or of being in the wrong body

• EGO - (N.) your idea or opinion of yourself, especially your feeling of your own importance and ability

• ENTROPY - (N.) a measurement of the energy in a system or process that is not available to do work

• HALLUCINATION - (N.) an experience in which you see, hear, feel, or smell something that does not exist

• HALLUCINOGEN - (N.) a substance that induces hallucinations

• LETHAL - (ADJ.) able to cause or causing death; extremely dangerous

• LSD - (N.)an illegal drug that causes people who use it to see the world differently from the way it really is or to see things that do not really exist

• MALLEABLE -  (ADJ.) easily influenced, trained, or controlled

• MENTAL - (ADJ.) relating to the mind, or involving the process of thinking

• MYSTICAL - (ADJ.) involves spiritual powers and influences that most people do not understand

• NEUROSCIENCE - (N.) the study of how the nervous system develops, its structure, and what it does

• NEUROTOXICITY -  (N.) The direct or indirect effect of chemicals that disrupt the nervous system of humans or animals

• NICOTINE - (N.) the substance in tobacco that people can become addicted to OVERDOSE

• OVERDOSE - (N.) too much of a drug taken or given at one time, either intentionally or by accident

• RECEPTOR - (N.) a nerve ending that reacts to a change in the body by sending a message to the central nervous system

• RIGID - (ADJ.) stiff or fixed; not able to be bent or moved

• SCHIZOPHRENIA - (N.) a chronic, severe mental disorder that affects the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality, and relates to others

• SIDE EFFECT - (N.) a secondary and usually adverse effect (as of a drug)

• THERAPEUTIC - (ADJ.) having a healing effect

• TOLERANCE - (N.) capacity to endure pain or hardship

• TRANQUILIZER - (N.) a drug that makes people feel calmer or less anxious

• TREMOR - (N.) a slight shaking movement in a person's body