PSYC 1250 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Liver, Tobacco Smoking, Meds
12 Oct 2018
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PSYC 1250
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
*Extra Credit* → points go to total of exam scores
● Paper sept. 26
● Marijuana Debate nov. 8
○ Written question option
● 5 min presentations throughout semester
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Lecture
Chapter 1 - Drugs and Behavior Today
Societal Drug Use
● NAC → Nucleus Accumbens
○ Midbrain
○ Altered by drugs → produce pleasure → pleasure center of brain
● Most people die from cigarettes and alcohol as opposed to illegal drugs
● Cigarettes
○ Dangerous
○ In U.S. people do not encourage cigarette use
○ Carcinogens are BIG problem with cig use
○ (Nicotine also problem, duh)
● Who is going to be using drugs?
○ Age limits on different drugs (21 for alcohol, 18/21 for cigarettes)
○ Why?
■ Health risks
■ Addiction
● 82% of smokers 30-39 started before they were 18
■ ~5% high school seniors smoke
○ Vulnerable populations → pregnant women
■ Teratogens and all that
■ Goes straight to fetus
■ FAS
● Polydrug abuse
○ Many people use more than one drug
■ Drink and smoke (not allowed many places anymore)
○ Turn on NAC with both nicotine and alcohol
● Many countries don’t discourage cigs as much as U.S.
○ Europe
○ Mexico
● United States wasn’t always anti-smoking
○ Very common until about 60s
○ Marlboro man
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○ Some companies targeted cigarettes to African-Americans
○ White vans go through neighborhoods and give out cigs
■ Got sued because of lung cancer (womp womp)
○ Less affluent regions have more liquor stores
● E-cigs
○ Don’t have carcinogens like normal cig
○ Battery heats up liquid nicotine in cartridge, tip lights up
○ Targeted to youths (juul)
■ Flavors
○ Still issue with addiction
○ Is it good for society to have people dependant on e-cigs?
○ Different with other drugs like caffeine
○ Can be loaded with hash oil
■ Illegal right now
■ Will it be legal?
● Hash oil very potent
● Alcohol
○ Prohibition
■ Couldn’t make alcohol, but could sell existing alcohol
○ Moonshine in south
○ Can use distillation process to extract pure peppermint
■ Want pure product to have different vaporization point
○ Methanol as bi-product of distillation in moonshine made people go blind
○ Legal to distill alcohol on Missouri
○ Realized that alcohol is not good in 90s
■ Cirrhosis of the liver
■ Impair functioning, kill brain cells
■ Warning labels put on alcohol
■ 1998 → feds put limits on advertising for alcohols
● Put warning at end
○ People die because of binge drinking
■ Brain controls respiration
■ Medulla controls physiological responses including respiration
■ Massive amounts of alcohol repress medulla → can’t breathe
● Fentanyl also represses medulla
● Misuse of drugs
○ Legally prescribed
■ Ritalin
● Used for ADHD
■ Pain meds
○ Use of substances having no medical use as drugs
■ Bath salts
● Synthetic cathinones
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Document Summary
*extra credit* points go to total of exam scores. Altered by drugs produce pleasure pleasure center of brain. Most people die from cigarettes and alcohol as opposed to illegal drugs. In u. s. people do not encourage cigarette use. Carcinogens are big problem with cig use (nicotine also problem, duh) Age limits on different drugs (21 for alcohol, 18/21 for cigarettes) 82% of smokers 30-39 started before they were 18. Many people use more than one drug. Drink and smoke (not allowed many places anymore) Turn on nac with both nicotine and alcohol. Many countries don"t discourage cigs as much as u. s. White vans go through neighborhoods and give out cigs. Got sued because of lung cancer (womp womp) Less affluent regions have more liquor stores. Battery heats up liquid nicotine in cartridge, tip lights up. Couldn"t make alcohol, but could sell existing alcohol. Can use distillation process to extract pure peppermint. Want pure product to have different vaporization point.
