PSY 3142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Excitotoxicity, Neocortex, Atherosclerosis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3142
• Professor: Philip Wall

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Amphetamine is taken orally, by iv, or subcutaneous injection. Methamphetamine has very strong e ects on the cns. Street names: meth, crack, speed, crank, sip, go. It can be taken orally snorted injection iv or smoked. Smoking doe with a glass pipe or by heating the drug on a piece of aluminum. Methamphetamine hydrochloride (ice/crystal) is much easier/cheaper to produce. Some users go on binges or runs of repeated iv injections to experience recurrent highs. During a run the drug is typically injected about every two hours for as long as 3-6 days with little sleep and eating. Barbiturates or other depressants are sometimes sed to take the edge o during a run or to aid sleep afterwards. Iv amphetamine or methamphetamine is sometimes combined with heroin to yield speedball. Iv amphetamine and methaphetamine are metabolized by the liver at a slow rate. Because of long half- lives, users obtain a longer lasting high from a single dose.