Tag: community health and hygiene

Hallucinogens are natural and synthetic substances that when, ingested alter one's state of consciousness.
Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana is a psychoactive drug and is considered natural hallucinogen. LSD or lysergic acid diethylamide is a very strong hallucinogen. A form of LSD synthesized many important ergot alkaloids, which are all hallucinogens.
Amphetamine, on the other hand, is a potent CNS stimulant of the phenethylamine class used to treat narcolepsy and attention deficit disorder.
Thus, the correct answer is option (D), 'Amphetamine'.

Mescaline is a hallucinogen obtained from the small, spineless cactus Peyote (Lophophora williamsi). It is also found in certain members of the Fabaceae (bean family). Users typically experience visual hallucinations and radically altered states of consciousness, often experienced as pleasurable and illuminating but occasionally is accompanied by feelings of anxiety or revulsion. Other effects include open and closed eye visualisations, euphoria, dream-like state, laughter and a psychedelic experience. So, the correct answer is option D.

Pethidine is a synthetic opioid analgesic of the phenylpiperidine class. Methadone is also an opioid medication.
Morphine is also an opioid pain medication. Pethidine and methadone are not structurally similar to morphine. Hydromorphone is structurally related to morphine.
Therefore, the correct answer is option C.

Some of the young people in one of the village may use any drugs or may have become addicted to certain hallucinogens. These drugs resulted in the effects on the individuals which showed symptoms of headache, drowsiness and various other types of hallucination sensations. So, the statement given as assertion is correct. The symptoms shown may be due to drugs and not due to consumption of any type of toxic fungus. The symptoms of consuming toxic fungus may involve numbness, joint pain, fatigue, headache, drowsiness, cough, shortness of breath, etc. So, the reason is false.

Mescaline is a hallucinogen and a recreational drug it has a similar effect as the LSD and other hallucinogens and is not a stimulant.

The involuntary nature of cardiac muscles is the major quality that makes them contract and relax continuously without pausing or without experiencing any fatigue like the rest of the muscles of our body. The parasympathetic nervous system has effects antagonistic to those of the sympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic stimulation oh cardiac muscles, however, cannot change the involuntary nature of the cardiac musculature.

Angiotensinogen produced by the liver is broken into angiotensin I by renin which us an enzyme produced by the kidney. This angiotensin I is the precursor of angiotensin II which often plays a role in the constriction of glomerular arterioles, increase blood flow and blood pressure.