HLTH 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cardiac Arrhythmia, Synesthesia, Rubber Cement
12 Apr 2017
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Found in plant products such as coffee, tea, and chocolate. Enhances mental alertness and reduces feelings of fatigue. Side effects: wakefulness, insomnia, irregular heartbeat, dizziness, nausea, indigestion, mild delirium, and heartburn. Caffeine meets the requirements of addiction: tolerance, psychological dependence, and withdrawal symptoms. Derived from either the cannabis sativa or cannabis indicia (hemp) plant. Tetrahydrocannabinol (thc is the psychoactive substance in marijuana. Hallucinations, sever agitation, extremely elevated heart rate and blood pressure, coma, suicide, and drug dependence. Synergistic effect: combines with alcohol leads to respiratory failure and death. Include morphine, codeine, heroin, and black tar heroin. Depress cns and lower heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure pressure. Black tar heroin: sticky, dark brown, foul-smelling form of heroin that is relatively pure and inexpensive. Heroin withdrawal is distinct, including an intense desire for the drug, sleep disturbances, dilated pupils and muscle tremors. Mainlining: intravenous injection of powdered heroin mixed in a solution, the most common route of administration.
