Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pharmaceutical Drug, Freebase, Morphine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Rates people much higher on all scales when on mdma as they have positive thoughts on everything around them, higher empathy. Used to be widely used as an anesthetic. Energy, blood pressure increases, senses heightened, aggressiveness, very addictive, not hungry on it. Effects: well-being, self-confidence, alertness, energy, strength, socially outgoing, fidgety, talkativeness. Cocaine toothache drops, originally in coca-cola, wine, hair products. Freud and cocaine: early enthusiast of cocaine as an important medicinal drug, cure for morphine dependence and depression, later freud realized the strong relationship cocaine and addiction has. Only one real therapeutic use for cocaine: provides numbness and pain-relieving effects, used as a local anesthetic. Cocaine causes an elevation in the sns. When cocaine leaves the system: deep depression, low energy, cocaine washout, restlessness, cocaine psychosis, breaks down nasal membranes if cocaine is administered intranasally, hallucinations. Within the cns cocaine blocks the reuptake if receptors sensitive to dopamine and norepinephrine. No, its own category: made from the hemp plant.