Class#6 - Street drugs

Question 1

Abortion Pill content? use?

Answer 1

1. Anti-Progesterone (Mifepristone = RU-486), blocks action of progesterone. Lots of SE.
2. Can be used several months after implantation
   - Misoprostol given after to regulate hormones to normal levels

Question 2

Morning after pill content? use?

Answer 2

1. High dose of progesterone called plan B

2. Up to 72hours after sex

Question 3

Shakespeare used?

Answer 3

Cocaine

Question 4

Get high on cow pasture?

Answer 4

Methane released

Question 5

Anticholinergic plant drugs?

Answer 5

Belladona = jimson weed, Atropine

Question 6

Main active component of marijuana? # of cannabinoids? # of other compounds?

Answer 6

THC, 65, 483

Question 7

Hemp?

Answer 7

Used for fabric, less then 0.3 THC

Question 8

Cannabis Qc leading?

Answer 8

Cash crop

Question 9

Alex dumas drug?

Answer 9

Hash

Question 10

Origin of mari real bad?

Answer 10

New orleans 30s, police scare tactics

Question 11

Endogenous molecule close to THC?

Answer 11

Anandamide

Question 12

Mari medicinal uses?

Answer 12

appetite, nausea, anticonvulsivant, glaucoma (not anymore), depression,pain, anxiety

Question 13

Synthetic THC first? second?

Answer 13

Marinol, Sativex

Question 14

Cannabis cures cancer?

Answer 14

In vitro true, not in vivo

Question 15

Synthetic cana.

Answer 15

K2, spice, super dangerous

Question 16

Strichnine?

Answer 16

stimulant, rat poison also used to wake people up

Question 17

french tonic with cocaine?

Answer 17

Vin Mariani

Question 18

Coca-Cola cocaine ever?

Answer 18

No big amount

Question 19

BAsketball player died of one use of cacaine?

Answer 19

Len Bias

Question 20

Addiction definition?

Answer 20

Tolerance, withdrawal Sx

Question 21

Freebase cacaine =

Answer 21

Crack, smoke-able

Question 22

Amphetamine history?

Answer 22

WWII, then asthma Dx.

Question 23

How to make meth?

Answer 23

1. Pseudoephedrine (IN Sudaphed)

2. Phenylacetic acid (requires ammonia)

Question 24

Herbal Extacy

Answer 24

Ephedrine

Question 25

Opiates?

Answer 25

Exsudate from bulb of poppy

Question 26

Acetyl Morphine=

Answer 26

Heroin

Question 27

Oxicodone date?

Answer 27

1917

Question 28

Fentanyl date? x more potent then morphine?

Answer 28

1960, 1000xtimes

Question 29

Alpha-methyl fentanyl?

Answer 29

1976 china white, 25deaths

Question 30

Carfentanyl more potent then morphine??

Answer 30

10 000

Question 31

opioids antagonist?

Answer 31

Naloxone

Question 32

Peyote Cactus active ingredient? Similar to what NT?

Answer 32

Mescaline, similar to dopamine.

Question 33

Serotonin Psychedelics?

Answer 33

Psilocybin (mush), Buotenine (Cane toad), LSD

Question 34

LSD origin?

Answer 34

Lisurgig acid, from Ergot Fungus

Question 35

Who found LSD? Made it famous?

Answer 35

1. Albert Hoffman. 2. Timothy LEary

Question 36

PCP?

Answer 36

Phencyclidine

Question 37

Designer drugs?

Answer 37

Properties of known narcotics/illegal drugs but not yet illegal.

Question 38

1939 - Otto Eisleb - Drug?

Answer 38

Demerol

Question 39

1947 - Albert Ziering alterted demerol to?

Answer 39

MPPP

Question 40

1976 - Barry Kidston did?

Answer 40

Tryed making MPPP but went into catatonic state because of MPTP as byproduct. Also in 1982 - new heroin

Question 41

Why MTPT bad?

Answer 41

MAO makes it into MPP+, Detroys Substancia Nigria, causing Parkinson Disease