Lesson 2 Flashcards
Narcotic comes from the Greek word “______” that means “_____”and is originally referred to a variety of substances that dulled the senses and relieved pain.
narkotikos
stupor
These are drugs relieve pain and produce profound sleep or stupor. Medically, they are potent painkillers, cough depressants, and as an active component of anti- diarrheal preparations.
Narcotics (aka Opioids)
It is extracted from the coagulated juice poppy plant (Papaver Sumniferum Line).
OPIUM
It can be in the form of aqueous solution, granulated, and powdered.
Its alkaloids are Morphine, Codeine, Thebaine, Papaverine, Heroin (diamorphine, diacetyimorptine),
Dihydromorphinone, Methyl dihydromorphinone, and Apomorphine.
OPIUM
is the active ingredient and analgesic property of Opium.
Meconic Acid
Opiates have their effect on the brain because their structure closely resembles the_________ of the brain.
endorphins
Slang names of OPIUM
“Gum”, “Gamot”, “Kalamay”, “Panocha”
It is the principal derivative of opium and the most active.
MORPHINE
It is a white crystalline powder, light porous cubes or small white tablets.
MORPHINE
Morphine was derived from the name “_________”, the Greek god of Dream because of its dreamful effect, which follows its initial stimulating effect.
Morpheus
It is effective as a painkiller six times potent or stronger than opium, with a high dependence- producing potential.
MORPHINE
Morphine was 1st discovered by?
Friedrich Serturner
Slang names of MORPHINE
M”, Dreamer, “Pectoral”, Syrup”, AAA”, “LA”, 999”
Heroin is chemically known as?
Diacetylmorphine or Diamorphine.
The most addicting opium derivative.
3-5 times more potent than morphine.
HEROIN
Heroin was 1st discovered by?
Alder Wright
Slang names of HEROIN
“Snow, “Stuff, “Junk tooth”, “H” Miracle drug”
A derivative of morphine commonly available in cough preparations.
CODEINE
It is the Methyl Ether of morphine and the least effective.
CODEINE
Codeine 1st discovered by?
Pierre Robiquet
The following are classified as NARCOTICS:
OPIUM
MORPHINE
HEROIN
CODEINE
- A morphine like opioid and it is a brand name of meperidine. As a powerful painkiller, an addiction to the drug can develop quickly.
Demerol
- It is a powerful drug used for pain relief and treatment of drug addiction.
Methadone
It is an opioid agonist of the morphine-type.
Percodan
- It is a mu-opioid agonist, it may be subject to misuse, abuse, and addiction.
Darvon (propoxyphene)
• Camphorated tincture of opium. It is a mixture of opium, camphor, benzoic acid, and anise oil in alcohol.
Paregoric
It is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium.
Laudanum
A designer narcotic whose potency may even be greater than heroin’s. It is an effective pain killing drug.
Fentanyl
means substances chemically related to but slightly different from controlled substances. It is designed by clandestine chemist with the aim to manufacture compounds that produce the “high” or euphoria of parent drugs and avoid the penalties that would be levied against those illegally traffic the controlled substances.
Designer drug
Synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine but is 50-100 times more potent.
Fentanyl
Slang terms of FENTANYL
“Apache”, “China Girl”, “China White”, “Jackpot”
-These are drugs that produce excitation, alertness, and wakefulness, intense feeling of highness and in some cases, a temporary rise in blood pressure and respiration.
STIMULANTS (UPPERS)
-It works by increasing the activity of the brain chemicals dopamine and norepinephrine.
STIMULANTS
__________is involved in the reinforcement of rewarding behaviors.
__________ affects blood vesseis, blood pressure and heart rate, blood sugar, and breathing.
Dopamine
Norepinephrine
People who use prescription stimulants report feeling a ‘rush” (euphoria) along with the following:
a. increased blood pressure and heart rate b. increased breathing
C. decreased blood flow
d. increased blood sugar
e. opened-up breathing passages
THE FOLLOWING ARE CLASSIFIED AS STIMULANTS:
COCAINE
AMPHETAMINES
Methamphetamine Hydrochloride (SHABU)
FLAKKA
CAFFEINE
- This is a natural produce obtained/extracted from the leaves of Erythroxylum coca or the Coca Bush.
Cocaine
Cocain was First isolated in 1860 by?.
Dr. Albert Nieman
There are basically three chemical forms of cocaine:.
the hydrochloride salt,
“freebase”
and the Crack
is made by mixing baking soda or ammonia into the powder form of cocaine.
Crack
are a group of drugs that increase the activity of certain chemicals in the brain.
Amphetamines
They are derived from ephedra (Ephedra sinica), a plant native to China and Mongolia. The plant contains ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, which are natural alkaloids, or nitrogenous organic compounds that cause a physiological response in humans.
Amphetamines
Slang names of AMPHETAMINES
“Beanies”, “copilots”, “foothall hearts”, “pep pills”, “ampies”, “Speedballs”
It is white, colorless, crystal or crystalline powder with a bitter numbing taste.
Methamphetamine Hydrochloride (Shalu)
It is considered as the poor man’s cocaine and was ist synthesized in JAPAN (1919) “Kakuseizai”.
Methamphetamine Hydrochloride (Shabu)
Slang names of METHAMPHETAMINES HYDROCHLORIDE (SHABU)
upper or speed, “Shabs”, “Tubas”, “S”, “Spoil”, “Ha”, and Ice.
- The feeling as if grains of sand are lying under the skin or small insects are creeping on the skin.
Meth bugs / Magnan’s Symptoms
Aka Bath salts, Ivory Wave, The zombie drug.
Khat plant of East Africa and Southern Arabla
People who use it have gone on mad, violent, zombie- like rampages.
Flakka
It is a drug that is present in coffee, tea, chocolate, cola drinks and some wakeup pills.
Caffeine
- These are drugs which suppress vital body functions espacially those of the brain or central nervous system with the resulting impairment of judgment, hearing, speech, and muscular coordination.
DEPRESSANTS (DOWNERS)
- They dull the minds, slow down body reactions to such an extent that accidental deaths/or suicides, usually happen.
DEPRESSANTS (DOWNERS)
These are drugs used for inducing sleep in persons plagued with anxiety, mental stress and insomnia.
Adolf Von Bayer synthesized Malonyl Caitamide or the so called barbituric acid.
Barbiturates
Slang names of BARBITURATES
“Goofballs”, “Footballs”, “Bards”, “Blockbuster”
- In solid blue capsule form known as “Blues, “ Blue devils”, “Blue heavens, “Blue birds”, and “Blue dragons”
Amo-Barbital (Amytal)
- in red capsule form called “Reds”, “ Red birds”, “ Red devils*, and “Seggy”.
Seco- Barbital (Seconal)
- It is found in solid yellow capsule known to the abusers as “yellow jackets”, or “Nemies”
Pento- Barbital (Nembutal)
- “Purple heart*, “Barbs”
Pheno- Barbital (Luminal)
“Tooles”, “Christmas Tree”, “Rainbow”
Combination of Amobarbital - Secobarbital (Tuinal) -
It is a sedative-hypnotic drug that is similar in effect to barbiturates, a general central nervous system depressant.
• Trade Names. “Quaalude”/ludes”, “Sopor/soaps”, “Parest, and “Optimil
Methaqualone
A methaqualone and diphenhydramine combination pill. It may also contain benzodiazepines, barbiturates, or ephedrine
Mandrax
These are drugs used in treating nervous disorders or calm psychotic patients or mental disorders without producing sleep.
Some of its type includes Diazepam and Meprobamate.
Tranquilizers
It is considered as the “king’ of all drugs and most extensively legalized drugs throughout the world.
Alcohol
The inhalation of solvent fumes from glue, gasoline, and paint thinner and lighter fluid wil produce a form of intoxication.
- sudden sniffing death syndrome” (sudden death by cardiac arrest)
Inhalants
A variety or mind- altering drugs which distort reality, thinking and perception of time, sound, space and sensation. It usually affects the user by Hallucination, illusion and Delusion.
HALLUCINOGENS (PSYCHEDELIC)
it interfere with the action of the brain chemical serotonin, which regulates mood, sensory, and perception.
Hallucinogens
Considered to be the world’s oldest cultivated plant.
Cannabis Sativa / Marijuana
The most important psycho-active ingredient of Cannabis is known as__________.
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or the Deita
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Raphael Mechoulam
It is also called as Indian hemp, Grass, Damo, Weed, Ganja. It is a drug called known as the “Assassins of the Youth”.
Cannabis Sativa / Marijuana
- dried leaves of cannabis plant
Marijuana
-dried flowering tops
Weed / pot
- is derived from the “kief,” or the dried resin, of the flowering tops of mature and unpollinated female cannabis plants. The resin glands are called trichomes or crystals.
Hashish
- is a concentrated cannabis extract and the most potent among all preparations.
Hash oil
- MJ cigarette
Joint
It is synthesized from the Ergot plants- a fungus that parasites rye and other grains.
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) was first synthesized by?
Dr. Albert Hoffman and Dr. Arthur Steel.
This drug is the most powerful of the Psychedelics and it is 1, 000 times more powerful than marijuana.
is a colorless, tasteless, odorless, usually fiquid form and taken orally.
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide LSD
- hear colors or see sounds.
Synesthesia
Higher doses in LSD cause a more serious condition called___________ in which the tissue in the feet, legs, hands, and arms becomes dry and black.
gangrenous ergotism
Slang names of Lysergic acid Diethylamide
Acid, Blotter Acid, California Sunshine, hoze, Microdots, paper acid, purple haze, sunshine
- Usually in the form of paper strips and abused oraly.
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
is a hallucinogen obtained from the small, spineless cactus Peyote (Lophophora williamsi). The top of it are cut off and dried in the sun to form peyote or mescal buttons which contain the active drug, mescaline
Mescaline
Slang Names of Mescaline
“Battons”, “Cactus”, “Mese”, “Mescal”, “Mescal Buttons”.
A drug derived from the psylocybe mushrooms (azurescens, semilanceata, cyanescens) is eaten and they produced an effect quite similar to mescaline and LSD.
Psilocybin
- These mushrooms induce nausea, muscular relaxation, mood changes with visions of bright colors and shapes and later maybe followed by depressions laziness and complete loss of time and space perceptions.
Psilocybin
Slang words for magic mushrooms” are:
zoomers, shroom, sewage fruit, goom.
A group of drugs that chemically includes Methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA), Methylenedioxy-amphetamine (MDMA) and methylenedioxyethylamphetamine (MDEA).
Ecstasy
the drug produces euphoric effects, increased sensitivity to touch, and lowered inhibitions
Ecstasy
Ecstasy is popularly known as the “______*.
love drug
Slang names of Ecstasy
XTC, “Adam *molly” (US), “mandy” (UK)
Hormones that relieves pain and improve your mood
Endorphins
It was developed in late 1950s as an intravenous anesthetic
Phencyclidine
