PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Depressant, Intellectual Disability, Ct Scan
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Barbiturates: categorized into barbiturates, non-barbiturates, and alcohol usually used to help people sleep and relax. Withdrawl: one of the strongest depressants, can have seizures/convulsions (if took barbiturates for a long time); rather can administer other depressants (like alcohol), to allow them get through the withdrawl without seizures. 20 30% of all suicides, person was drinking. Methyl alcohol leads to permanent blindness or death. Lesson: if people really want a drug, they will get it. Now, rather try to educate people, so people learn the consequences and negative effects. It is absorbed directly through the stomach lining most other things must be broken down; very high source of energy 200 calories per ounce, 7 calories per gram. Since it gets through blood stream instantly, it is the fastest source of energy. Cant enter any metabolic pathway where it will get stored as fat.
