Street Drugs Flashcards
(44 cards)
people will do anything to get high:
breathe in the gas from cow poop
drugs are illegal because:
they are dangerous: health, personal life, society
drugs are dangerous because
they are illegal: fines, jail time, criminal record, secondary crime (75% is drug related)
what is buyer beware for drugs?
street drugs are not pure, they can contain anything, and don’t know what’s actually in them
Cocaine
stimulant - used in a culture as a pick me up
what are some interesting ways to get high?
solvents in elementary schools
nitrous oxide in whipped cream - propellant is the same as laughing gas
Fake pot:
chemicals similar to cannabis, soaked into leaves
- could cell on the internet
spiked with synthetic analgesics
dealers substituted Pfizer molecule with another
OR
spiked with synthetic cannabinoids - JWH-018 was more potent than THC
cocaine link to Coca Cola?
Coke is a nonalcoholic version of an old patent medicine wich contained cocaine
Coca-cola is the same as the medicine but without the alcohol
Cocaine’s uses:
doesn’t cure illness but might reduce symptoms
it is a topical anesthetic that would remove the itch for dandruff
it’s illegal but it does have medical uses so they wanted to make sure doctors could use it,
taxation: in order to purchase cocaine you need to prove you paid tax on it - only doctors could have it
Stepan Chemical company
cocaine used as flavoring
- removed from the cocaine from the leaves and the leaves could then be used for flavouring
some cocaine is kept to be used as a pharmaceutical - topical anesthetic
- doctors use
ex: benzocaine in auralgan (ear pain gel)
ex: novocaine - dental anesthetic
Snorting cocaine hydrochloride
once sniffed it goes into the bloodstream but it was very expensive in the past so only rockstars used it
what do rats prefer? cocaine or food?
cocaine - would starve themselves to death
Freebased cocaine:
crack cocaine
hydrochloride is a stabilizer that when you mix with baking soda you’re left with just cocaine
when it dries out cracks form, more dangerous than normal cocaine - requires a much lower dose (cheaper)
how is crack normally taken?
smoking from a crack pipe which passes quickly into your bloodstream
what does cocaine do to dopamine
prevents reuptake so it stays released and continues the feeling of “feeling good”
Amphetamine
WW2 soldier to increase aggression + make u feel good
abused in military prison
low dose: colds, fight to flight (adrenaline increases aggression)
medium: stay awake+aggressive
high dose: recreation
- euphoria -> dopamine release, psychosis
Benzedrine inhaler
contained 250mg amphetamine
- decongested nose with a blob of amphetamine and channels creates with a cross-section for measured doses
amphetamine extraction with Coca-Cola
If you cracked open the tube and put it into coke, the amphetamines would dissolve and if you drink the coke, you get a very high dose which would create a euphoria
amphetamines and depression
medium dose - sold as a pill to treat depression - make you feel good
JFK- Dr. Feelgood
methamphetamines - 1990’s
pseudoephedrine was used to make meth
- cold medication converted into meth easily
vasoconstrictor:
- dries secretions in your nose
- shuts off blood supply to teeth and mouth - teeth die
meth face: no blood supply and skin dies (soars + scars
Opioids
poppy plant latex
injections: hypodermic seringe
examples: morphine
- painkiller
- addiction became popular after giving patients higher doses than needed
non addictive version of morphine:
Heroin - non-addictive caugh suppressant
BUT actually much more addictive then morphine
- usually injected, you can damage a blood vessel, if it gets damaged it collapses so that you don’t bleed out but the blood supply is then cut off
Codeine
common medicinal opiate
oxycodone- thebaine chemically converted from opium
Oxycotin
hillbilly heroin
- artificial drug - opium -> thebaine -> oxy
main source today is stolen from pharmacies
