ESS 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Contingency Management, Psychomotor Retardation, Hypersomnia
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Powerfully addicive simulant w/ high potenial for abuse. Schedule ii, rarely used medically, can be used to treat adhd through rx but can"t be reilled. Made in labs with cheap otc ingredients. White, odorless, biter-tasing crystalline powder speed/meth/chalk smokable form names- ice, crystal, crank, glass. Methods of use taken orally, smoked, snorted, dissolved in h2o or alcohol and injected smoking or injecing delivers very quickly to brain, where immediate intense euphoria lasts only a few minutes. Snoring or oral ingesion produces less intense euphoria. Snoring- takes 3-5 minutes, oral- produces efects w/in 15-20 minutes with efects that can last half a day. Associated with dopamine rapid release which causes rush or lash . Pleasurable efects disappear even before drug concentraion in blood falls signiicantly. Users try to maintain high by binging. To intensify efects, users take higher doses or change method of administraion and take more frequently.
