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Uppers Downers

  1. Five historical themes of drug use.
    • 1. Coping with the enviroment and enhance their existance.
    • 2. Brain chemestry
    • 3. The ruling classes. ( Government, busenesses, ect.
    • 4. Refining and manufactoring.
    • 5. Faster and more effective methods of consumption.
  2. Most dangerouse and most popular psychoactive substance over the millennia
    Alcohol
  3. Volstad Act
    • Prohibition 1920
    • 18th amendment
    • lasted 13 years
  4. Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith
    AA in 1934 ( A 12 step program for recovery)
  5. Psychoactive drugs
    Any substance that directly alters the normal functioning of the central nervous system.
  6. Uppers
    • 1. Cocaine
    • 2. Amphetamines ( Meth, Speed)
    • 3. Caffeine
    • 4. Nicotine
  7. Downers
    • 1. Opiates
    • 2. Sedative-hypnotics
    • 3. Alcohol
    • 4. Others
  8. All Arounders
    • 1. LSD,
    • 2. Psilocybin mushrooms
    • 3. MDMA
    • 4. Marijuana
    • 5. PCP.
    • 6. Salvia Divinorum
  9. Drug delivery methods
    • Inhaling
    • injecting
    • Snorting and mucosal exposure
    • orally
    • Contact or transdermal
Author
mlecandie
ID
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Card Set
Uppers Downers
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