If You Can Pass This Drug Quiz We'll Only Be A Little Suspicious

In the early 1900s, purified cocaine was the main ingredient in a ton of medicinal tonics and elixirs — and yep, was even an ingredient in early recipes of Coke. But then research showed that cocaine was actually a highly addictive substance, so yeah, no more coke in your Coca-Cola.

Once the pill is swallowed, it takes about 15 minutes for MDMA to enter the bloodstream and reach the brain. It produces its effects by increasing the activity of neurotransmitters (the chemical messengers of brain cells) including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine.

Because cocaine acts as a stimulant and heroin acts as a depressant, combining them is meant to reduce the negative effects of each — such as anxiety, hypertension, palpitations, and other common side effects of stimulants and the sedation and drowsiness from depressants. The dangerous combination is known as a “speedball.”

The main psychoactive — aka mind-altering — chemical in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). It’s found in resin produced by the leaves and buds primarily of the cannabis plant.

Valium — a sedative used to treat anxiety, muscle spasms, and seizures — is a benzodiazepine, not an opioid.

Psilocybin = a psychedelic compound better known as ~magic mushrooms~, shrooms, boomers, etc. It’s extracted from certain types of mushrooms that can be dried or fresh and eaten raw, mixed with food, or brewed into a tea for hallucinatory effects.

Users can administer cocaine by rubbing the drug on their gums (orally), snorting it through their nose (intranasally), dissolving it in water and injecting it (intravenously), and inhaling its vapor into the lungs (inhalation).

According to the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug. And btw, "illicit drug use" is defined by the US Department of Health and Human Services as the abuse of illegal drugs or the misuse of prescription medications or household substances.

MDMA actually raises your body temperature.

Smack is a street name for heroin, not cocaine.

Meth is man-made in labs, whereas cocaine is extracted from coca leaves.

Nope, two completely different plants. Salvia is a dissociative drug that is an herb in the mint family native to southern Mexico and South America. Marijuana, on the other hand, is made from the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa.

"Bath salts" is the commonly used term for synthetic (man-made) cathinones, an amphetamine-like stimulant. They belong in a group of drugs that experts refer to as "new psychoactive substances."

The symptoms of a substance use disorder are grouped into four categories by the effects of substance use: impaired control, social problems, risky use, and drug effects. All of the above are symptoms that fall into one of those four categories except for physical changes.