+ PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS

Group 4-A:
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YES
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NO?
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PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS
 Affects people physically and psychologically
 Alter thinking, perception, memory, etc.
 Chemical substances
 Affects the brain, especially behaviour and
mood
 Therapeutically to treat both physical and
psychological disorders
 Recreational
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YES... It affects us in a horrible way.
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Drugs can make you look

HAGGARD
No joke... 
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PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE

1. The body needs it

2. No drug in-take, no normality
 dependence or addiction
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2 SIGNS OF DRUG DEPENDENCE

1. DRUG TOLERANCE
2. WITHDRAWAL
SYMPTOMS
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1. DRUG TOLERANCE

More and more dosages are

needed just to get the same
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2. WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOM

 Deprivation of the drug;

bad body effects
 Physical sensations occur
due to the adaption of the
body without the drug
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PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDENCE
1. Dependency of the mind. They just think they need it
2. I have a drug  Happy rewarding system = POSITIVE
REINFORCEMENT
3. Positive reinforcement – you get more things when you
do good
4. It can last forever – psychological dependence, that is
* Remark: Negative reinforcement – you do something to
escape the evil of it
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STIMULANTS
Like UP on a rocket and on the sky.
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STIMULANTS:

1. Amphetamines

2. Cocaine

3. Nicotine

4. Caffeine
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1. Amphetamines “speed”
 Synthesized (made in laboratories)
 Awakens
 Diet pills
 SNS and System overdrive
 Exhausted  “crash”
 Treats narcolepsy
 AMPHETAMINE PSYCHOSIS occurs –
delusional and paranoid
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2. COCAINE “crack”
 Natural drug
 “Great” feeling – euphoria, energy, power and
pleasure
 Kills pain and suppresses the appetite
 Dental drug back in the days
 Convulsion and death, when used for the 1st
time
 Physical dependency due to a crash
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Crack
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3. Nicotine

 Cigarette stick
 Mild, but toxic
 Releases adrenaline
 Relaxing effect
 “toxic past”
 Delayed smoking technique.
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Singapore
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4. Caffeine

 Almost everybody uses it!

 Coffee, tea, most sodas and chocolate
 Natural substance
 Mild stimulant
 Alertness
 Additive for pain relievers
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DEPRESSANTS
Take it SLOW.
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DEPRESSANTS:

1. Barbiturates

2. Benzodiazepines
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1. Barbiturates
“major tranquilizers”

 Sleeping pills
 Keeps GABA in the brain
 Sleepy or calm effect, but no help in pain
 “Barbs, barbies, red devils and sleepers”
 Lethal dose is quite close to the 'normal' dose
 Fatal when mixed with alcohol
 Effect in withdrawal and abuse
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2. Benzodiazepines
“minor tranquilizers”

 Sedative
 Mild depressant effect
 Safer/drug of choice
 Same banana with barbiturates when mixed with alcohol
 “date-rape” drug
 GABA
 Seeing something out of the blues
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ALCOHOL
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ALCOHOL
 Commonly abused
 Instability
 Liver disease and accidents
 Preggy? No, no-ie!
 Depressant (1st hit: natural inhibitions)
 GABA
 Alcohol abuse – you drink, you cause
problems.
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