 Are produced in the brain that give good feelings similar to morphine.

 They reduce pain  Slow breathing  Reduce blood pressure  Lower the level of motor activity

 Sedating drugs that depress the Central Nervous System

 Opiate produced from and more powerful than morphine.

 Injected  Smoked  sniffed

 A synthetic version of morphine.  Trade name is OxyContin.  Sold in tablets and used as a pain killer.

 Depress the CNS  Decrease motor activity  Produce drowsiness  Sedation  hypnosis

What are they?

 Minor tranquilizers or sedatives

 2/3 Americans consume Alcohol. (p. 112)

 Beer 5% alcohol  Wine 6-14% alcohol  Liquor 25-50% alcohol

 The percentage of alcohol in a water solution (and thus the "proof")

 Mind-altering chemical that, like heroin and tranquilizers, depresses the CNS.

 Stimulate the CNS  Enhance moods  Increase alertness  Relieve fatigue

 Nicotine  caffeine

 Coca is a flowering blush or scrub that yields four ounces of leaves that are 1% cocaine.  kilograms of coco leaves are required to make one kilo of paste  2 ½ kilos of coca paste converted into 1 kilo of cocaine base (66% pure).  1 kilo of cocoa base is synthesized into 1 kilo of cocaine hydrochloride 95% pure

 Sugar, talcum powder.  Street levels are 20-50% pure

 Injected  Snooted  smoked

 Cocaine cooked in a mixture of baking soda and water becomes hard when heat-dried.