Health - Drugs
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- amphetamines...aka
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powerful, addictive, stimulant - supresses appetite, produce euphoria
aka-speed/uppers - effects of amphetimines
- intense, short euphoria, feel strong, depress appetite --> depression, anxiety, lack of 02, high temp/BP
- legal uses of amphetimines
- constant sleeping/hyperactivity in children
- barbiturates
- depressive drugs that slow activity of CNS
- opiates
- narcotic - habit forming drugs that relieve pain/produce sleep
- ex. of opiates
- codeine, heroin, morphine, opium
- legal uses of opiates
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codeine-pain relief, calm cough
morphine-cancer, strongest pain killer - hallucinogens
- drugs that cause visions and other sensory illusions
- ex. of hallucinogens
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LSD (taken w/ sugar/food)
mental grip, distorted visoins, cant be stopped, dreams, flashbacks - bad trip
- become irrational, do dangerous things to try and escape imaginary pursuer
- flashback
- temporary resurfacingof drugs effects - days or years after
- PCP
- animal tranquilzer abused as hallucinogen
- PCP effects
- hallucinations, violent behavior, seizures, coma, death
- Mescaline
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hallucinogen produced by peyote cactus (religious ceremonies)
like LSD, vomiting, sweating, abdominal cramping - Psilocybin/Psilocin
- halluciongens produced by same type of wile mushrrrom
- inhalents - 3 types
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1.solvents (gas, paint thinner, glue, fumes, melt brain cells)
2.propellants (hair spray)
3.medical (laughing gas, chlorophorm) - short term effects of inhalents
- headache, dizziness, HR inc, nasal irritation, heart attack/stroke, suffocation
- long term effects of inhalents
- permanant brain damage, heart failure
- inhalents effects on brain
- disrupts vision, impairs judgement, reduces muscle tension/reflex control, brain cells dissolve