Narcotics

Essential Question What is a narcotic and how does it affect the human body? What is a hallucinogen and how does it affect the human body?

relieve pain by blocking messengers to the brain Narcotics – specific drugs derived from the opium plant that are obtainable only by prescription legally and are used to relieve pain relieve pain by blocking messengers to the brain use can cause euphoria, drowsiness, constipation, pinpoint pupils, slow and shallow breathing, convulsions, coma, and death highly addictive Ex: prescription painkillers

Heroin highly addictive narcotic processed form of morphine that is injected, snorted or smoked depresses the CNS slows breathing and pulse can cause infection of heart lining and valves easily developed tolerance withdrawal can be very painful

Hallucinogens drugs that alter moods, thoughts, and sense perceptions including vision, hearing, smell, and touch. No medical use!! overload the sensory controls in the brain altered state can last for several hours or several days effects are unpredictable

PCP distorts sense of time and space increased muscles strength inability to feel pain flashbacks can occur

LSD (acid) distorts sound and color changes emotions ranging from euphoria to panic and depression flashbacks

Ketamine anesthetic mostly used on animals misused as a club drug snorted powder or injected also smoked and cause hallucinations

Mushrooms psilocybin changes the audio, visual, and tactile senses grown only in Central and South America

Ecstasy and Designer drugs Designer Drugs – synthetic substances meant to imitate the effects of hallucinogens and other dangerous drugs vary greatly can be 100 times stronger than the drug meant to imitate

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Essential Question What is a narcotic and how does it affect the human body? What is a hallucinogen and how does it affect the human body?