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1.
What do stimulants do?
Answer: Increase alertness, wakefulness, locomotion (makes animals faster), thus increasing productivity motivation, arousal, and requires less food and sleep
2.
What are the natural receptors for stimulants?
Answer: Norepinephrine, dopamine, nicotinic acetylcholine
3.
What are the different types of stimulants?
Answer: Adrenaline: the fight/flight hormone, heightens activity to survive life or death situations Amphetamine “speed”: highly addictive, causes withdrawal syndrome Methamphetamine (crystal meth): methylated amphetamine, popular in Asia, a major illegal drug MDMA (ecstasy): methamphetamine dioxy derivative that produces feelings of closeness or intimacy
4.
What are some effects of methamphetamine use?
Answer: Weight loss, heart attack, and stroke
5.
How do governments control access to methamphetamine when they can be privately synthesized?
Answer: They control access to precursor chemicals
6.
When was ecstasy \"rediscovered\"?
Answer: In the 1970s, when Berkeley students published a report of its psychotropic effects
7.
What are the effects of ecstasy?
Answer: Normal doses = euphoria, fatigue, depression Overdose = heart damage, stroke, panic attack, hyperthermia
8.
From what is nicotine derived?
Answer: The tobacco plant, tertiary amine, and is used as insecticide and is a natural insect repellant
9.
What are the short term effects of nicotine?
Answer: Increased heart rate, blood pressure, allows relaxation, causes sharpness
10.
What is a long term effect of nicotine?
Answer: Heart disease
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