effects‚ speedballing‚ dangers of use‚ tolerance and sensitization‚ withdrawal‚ dangerous interactions with other drugs‚ health effects‚ effects on baby‚ treatment) Ephedrine Amphetamines (history‚ medical uses‚ effects) General neuronal effects and long-term effects (at least 2 differences between cocaine and amphetamines covered in class) Methamphetamine (mostly video we watched) Chapter – 10 and chapter 6 Sedatives and Inhalants 3 main types inhalants book covered and an example of each
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Effects Several studies have examined the socioeconomic‚ medical‚ and psychological impact of pregnancy and parenthood in teens. Life outcomes for teenage mothers and their children vary; other factors‚ such as poverty or social support‚ may be more important than the age of the mother at the birth. Many solutions to counteract the more negative findings have been proposed. Teenage parents who can rely on family and community support‚ social services and child-care support are more likely to continue
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Drug Profile Paper Sherry Grant PSY/425 December 3‚ 2012 Mrs. Barbara Nosal Drug Profile Paper Drugs tend to have very different effects many of which can make them appealing and therefore lead to substance abuse. Every day on the news‚ in various media outlets‚ and often in our own lives we hear about a person that has fallen victim to an addiction of some sort. This paper is designed to explain the physiology and psychology of addiction while demonstrating the addictive potential of
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she wants to appear on the show. She then tries to watch for her bodily figure by undertaking a strict diet so that she can appear on TV looking slim. However‚ her diet did not work so she takes amphetamine pills. As the days go by‚ Sara increases her dosage which causes her to suffer from amphetamine psychosis. She goes to a television studio which made the staff call a paramedic. Meanwhile‚ Harry and his friends‚ Tyrone and Marion‚ have aspiring dreams‚ but they need money to achieve
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it is always beautiful. When come to discussing about baseball game‚ baseball game was stuffed with cheating‚ racism‚ alcoholism and small-mindedness. Even though amphetamines and steroid become available to players at different period of baseball history‚ it actually has no difference between injecting steroid and taking amphetamines. Joe Posnanski believes that “it seems more or less the same level of cheating and more or less the same level of wrong” (557). The different motivation urge the
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Exam #1‚ Chapters 1-6 Study online at quizlet.com/_d00x4 1. Suppose a person is prescribed an opioid medication (similar to heroin) to treat a painful injury. After the injury heals‚ she takes the drug primarily to feel euphoria. Based on this information alone‚ what term would you use to describe her drug use?: Drug misuse 2. Among college students‚ fewer than 1/4 have ever tried:: 17. medical emergencies. 18. Drug use that is not common within a social group and 19.
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Australia is a drug-using society. The most common drugs used are alcohol‚ coffee‚ nicotine and various medications. Less commonly used are illegal drugs such as cannabis (marijuana)‚ ecstasy‚ heroin and amphetamines (speed). What is a drug? A drug is any substance‚ solid‚ liquid or gas‚ that brings about physical and/or psychological changes. The drugs of most concern in the community are those that affect the central nervous system. They act on the brain and can change the way a person thinks
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Numerous fatalities. Saferstein page 211 Amphetamines CH3 NH2 CH3 HN CH3 O O NH2 CH3 O O CH3 HN Synthetic compounds. Method of making (synthesis) leaves characteristic impurities. Precursor chemicals are controlled. CH3 Saferstein page 213 Amphetamines Smuggling of precursor chemicals is big business US$207‚000‚000 seized in March 2007 by the US DEA www.usdoj.gov/dea/multimedia.html Amphetamines - natural relatives O CH3 NH2 cathinone Qat
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after mixing brandy and strychnine. These were very early cases of drug abuse in the 20th century. In 1952‚ speed skaters in Oslo’s winter Olympics fell sick after taking amphetamines. Luckily for them this was just a mild side effect from taking the drug. In 1960‚ at the Rome Olympics‚ Danish cyclist Knut Jensen took amphetamines‚ fell down‚ cracked his skull and
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Addiction is a mental concern which researchers have related with dopamine levels in the brain. An experiment taken place in 2009 with Dr. Nora Volkow at the National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ had shown that illicit drugs such as marijuana and amphetamines flooded the brain with natural occurring dopamine‚ compared to normal dopamine levels. Because dopamine is the chemical that creates the pleasurable sensation‚ this is what helps create an addiction. Behavioral addiction is also known as a process
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