EQ 3: What are the effects of stimulants and nicotine? 1/7

Bell Ringer:  What do you know about stimulants?  What do you know about nicotine, cocaine and/or crack, ecstasy, meth?  How are all of these drugs the same?

Psychoactive drugs  Psychoactive drugs: chemicals that change mental processes and behavior  Alter consciousness by attaching to synaptic receptors in brain and blocking or stimulating neural activity

Drug abuse  Abuse: Take drugs to the point that it interferes with behavior or social relationships

Stimulants  Drugs that speed up or stimulate the nervous system and increase mental and physical activity  Increase heart rate and breathing, pupils dilate, appetite diminishes and energy increases  EX: Caffeine, Nicotine, Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Ecstasy, Ritalin

Reading on nicotine  Read and annotate  Define words at the bottom

Anti Smoking Campaigns

EQ 4: What are the effects of cocaine and crack? 1/8  Bell Ringer: Read and annotate explanation of cocaine and crack  What is the difference between crack and cocaine?  Draw diagram of how cocaine effects neurotransmitters

Cocaine and crack  Diagram of neuron: nt_figs/ch15/int_figs.html nt_figs/ch15/int_figs.html  Video on Crack addiction: Drug free world stories/crack-cocaine.html

Author’s purpose: Myths about crack  Read and annotate: myths about crack (individually)  In groups fill out author’s purpose (part 1 and 2)  Discussion  Individually fill out part 3

EQ 5: What are the effects of methamphetamines (stimulants)? 1/9

BR: Effects of Methamphetamines Reading  Meth effects reading- read and annotate

Where did meth start? What is the pattern of it’s spread?

What types of places have the highest incidence of meth users?

Frontline Video: gbh/pages/frontline/m eth/  Answer movie questions on sheet (#1-4)  Watch brain video (#5)  Scroll through pics