Week Assignment Review 1 Substance Abuse Class
Brian Edwards
Professor Haley Nunn
SOCL4273
11, January 2015 Chapter Review Assignment 6,7,8,9 Week 1
Chapter 6
1. At about what periods in history did cocaine reach its first and second peaks of popularity, and when was amphetamine’s popularity at its highest? Cocaine -late 19th century and early 20th amphetamine- 1960s (Hart & Ksir, p. 125)
2. How did Mariani, Freud Halsted popularize the use of cocaine? Psychiatric use (Hart & Ksir, p. 126)
3. How are coca paste, freebase, crack, and ice similar? Heated and they use home products
4. What similarities and what differences are there in the toxic effects of cocaine and amphetamine relate to the behavioral effects of the two drugs? Cocaine: CNS stimulations or convulsions and maybe cardiac arrest (acute) or full blow paranoid psychosis, increasing irritability, restlessness (chronic) Amphetamine: paranoia, increased feeling of power or capability (acute) and paranoia/sleep deprivation (chronic) (Hart & Ksir, p. 132,135)
5. How would medical practice be affected if both cocaine and amphetamine were placed on Schedule I? It can't be prescribe ADHD meds. (Hart & Ksir, p. 141)
6. How does the chemical difference between methamphetamine and amphetamine relate to the behavioral effects of the two drugs? Methyl group added, makes molecule across blood-brain barrier more readily and increase CNS potency (Hart & Ksir, p. 138-139)
7. Compare the dependence potential of cocaine with that of amphetamine. Both potential reinforcers and habit forming psychological dependence (Hart & Ksir, p. 140)
8. Describe the effects of amphetamines on mental performance. Example would be Adderall, "smart pill". It is said to make you more concentrated, but it can actually disrupt your performance. (Hart & Ksir, p. 141)
Chapter 7
1. What was the foul-smelling drug that o widely used in mental hospitals before the 1950’s? Paraldehyde (Hart & Ksir, p. 148)
2. A prescription of 30 mg of phenobarbital would probably have
Professor Haley Nunn
SOCL4273
11, January 2015 Chapter Review Assignment 6,7,8,9 Week 1
Chapter 6
1. At about what periods in history did cocaine reach its first and second peaks of popularity, and when was amphetamine’s popularity at its highest? Cocaine -late 19th century and early 20th amphetamine- 1960s (Hart & Ksir, p. 125)
2. How did Mariani, Freud Halsted popularize the use of cocaine? Psychiatric use (Hart & Ksir, p. 126)
3. How are coca paste, freebase, crack, and ice similar? Heated and they use home products
4. What similarities and what differences are there in the toxic effects of cocaine and amphetamine relate to the behavioral effects of the two drugs? Cocaine: CNS stimulations or convulsions and maybe cardiac arrest (acute) or full blow paranoid psychosis, increasing irritability, restlessness (chronic) Amphetamine: paranoia, increased feeling of power or capability (acute) and paranoia/sleep deprivation (chronic) (Hart & Ksir, p. 132,135)
5. How would medical practice be affected if both cocaine and amphetamine were placed on Schedule I? It can't be prescribe ADHD meds. (Hart & Ksir, p. 141)
6. How does the chemical difference between methamphetamine and amphetamine relate to the behavioral effects of the two drugs? Methyl group added, makes molecule across blood-brain barrier more readily and increase CNS potency (Hart & Ksir, p. 138-139)
7. Compare the dependence potential of cocaine with that of amphetamine. Both potential reinforcers and habit forming psychological dependence (Hart & Ksir, p. 140)
8. Describe the effects of amphetamines on mental performance. Example would be Adderall, "smart pill". It is said to make you more concentrated, but it can actually disrupt your performance. (Hart & Ksir, p. 141)
Chapter 7
1. What was the foul-smelling drug that o widely used in mental hospitals before the 1950’s? Paraldehyde (Hart & Ksir, p. 148)
2. A prescription of 30 mg of phenobarbital would probably have