Transcript Chapter 9 Drugs

9.2 Notes
Depressants, Stimulants, Club Drugs
Objectives
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Name and classify the commonly abused
drugs
Depressants
Alcohol
Barbiturates
Tranquilizers
Glue
Sniffing
Alcohol (ethyl alcohol)
Most
widely used and abused drug in the US
A $40 billion industry
Acts to suppress the CNS by affecting the brain’s
control of thought and muscle coordination
Causes the user to display a wide variety of
extreme behaviors
Barbiturates
Downers
Five
well-known derivatives include barbitals
(amo, seco, pheno, pento, buta)
Yellow jackets, blue devils
Quaalude (methaqualone)
Non-barbiturate depressant acts
as a sedative and muscle relaxant
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Tranquilizers
Produce
relaxation
Does not impair higher order thinking
Reserpine and chlorpromazine used
with mental patients to reduce anxiety
Miltown, Librium and Valium
Can cause both dependencies with
repeated high dosages
Glue Sniffing
Contain
volatile or gaseous substances that act on
the CNS
Toluene is solvent of choice
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Others include naphtha, methyl ethyl ketone,
gasoline, and trichloroethylene
Produce
slurred speech, euphoria, impaired
judgment, double vision
Not physically addicting it damages liver, heart,
brain and can cause death
Stimulants
Amphetamine
 Cocaine
 Club Drugs
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Amphetamines
Stimulates
the CNS
Called uppers or speed
Increased alertness
Decreases fatigue
Causes loss of appetite
Most serious abuse is meth by IV injection
Evaporated form called ice, which is smoked
Other drugs similar are used for weight control
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Phenmetrazine and Phendimetrazine
Cocaine
Extracted
from leaves of coca
plant (erythrooxylon)
Original use was painkiller or
anesthetic
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Replaced by procaine and lidocaine
Sniffed
or snorted
Crack = Cocaine mixed w/ baking
soda & water , then heated & dried
Cocaine
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Stimulates alertness, energy, euphoria
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As levels drop, causes depression, anxiety, and
pleasurelessness
Only a small percentage are ever cured of habit
Can cause cardiac arrest, seizures, respiratory arrest
¾ of the total cocaine smuggled into the US comes
from labs located in Columbia, SA
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Growers are paid $200 for leaves to make 1 lb
Refined it will bring $1000
Street value will be $20,000
Club Drugs
Synthetic
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used at nightclubs, bars and raves
Ecstasy
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(MDMA)
Popular at rave scenes
Original patented as a
appetite suppressant
Club Drugs cont
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GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate)
Rohypnol (roofies)
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Ketamine
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CNS depressants
Used for date rape and robbery
Cause dizziness, sedation, headache, nausea, and loss of
memory
Used as animal anesthetic but causes euphoria in
humans
Methamphetamine