PS268 Lecture Notes - Psychological Dependence, Morphine, Buprenorphine
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72 m/c questions: covers everything from last test including this lecture. About 1% of canadians report lifetime heroin use (2x males vs. females) Wlu students 99% no experience with it. The perception is that 2% use it in the regular basis. So, it is a very rare drug to use. The categories in which it ranked number 1: Heroin is a 2. 8 out of 3 (extreme risk) - on the scale of most dangerous drugs. ***2010 nutt lancet paper study which ranked alcohol as number one on harm scores and heroin as number 2 paper e-mailed on learning space. Alcohol came in first largely due to the social harm, simply because more people use alcohol than heroin. Grows best: afghanistan, southwest/ southeast asia areas. And with selective breeding: south america, mexico. Heroin is smuggled in tunnels underneath the boarder between south america and north america. Price of heroin the start of the war on drugs.
