Street Drugs

Question 1

people will do anything to get high:

Answer 1

breathe in the gas from cow poop

Question 2

drugs are illegal because:

Answer 2

they are dangerous: health, personal life, society

Question 3

drugs are dangerous because

Answer 3

they are illegal: fines, jail time, criminal record, secondary crime (75% is drug related)

Question 4

what is buyer beware for drugs?

Answer 4

street drugs are not pure, they can contain anything, and don’t know what’s actually in them

Question 5

Cocaine

Answer 5

stimulant - used in a culture as a pick me up

Question 5

what are some interesting ways to get high?

Answer 5

solvents in elementary schools
nitrous oxide in whipped cream - propellant is the same as laughing gas

Question 6

Fake pot:

Answer 6

chemicals similar to cannabis, soaked into leaves
- could cell on the internet

spiked with synthetic analgesics
dealers substituted Pfizer molecule with another
OR
spiked with synthetic cannabinoids - JWH-018 was more potent than THC

Question 7

cocaine link to Coca Cola?

Answer 7

Coke is a nonalcoholic version of an old patent medicine wich contained cocaine

Coca-cola is the same as the medicine but without the alcohol

Question 8

Cocaine’s uses:

Answer 8

doesn’t cure illness but might reduce symptoms

it is a topical anesthetic that would remove the itch for dandruff

it’s illegal but it does have medical uses so they wanted to make sure doctors could use it,
taxation: in order to purchase cocaine you need to prove you paid tax on it - only doctors could have it

Question 9

Stepan Chemical company

Answer 9

cocaine used as flavoring
- removed from the cocaine from the leaves and the leaves could then be used for flavouring

some cocaine is kept to be used as a pharmaceutical - topical anesthetic
- doctors use
ex: benzocaine in auralgan (ear pain gel)
ex: novocaine - dental anesthetic

Question 10

Snorting cocaine hydrochloride

Answer 10

once sniffed it goes into the bloodstream but it was very expensive in the past so only rockstars used it

Question 11

what do rats prefer? cocaine or food?

Answer 11

cocaine - would starve themselves to death

Question 12

Freebased cocaine:

Answer 12

crack cocaine
hydrochloride is a stabilizer that when you mix with baking soda you’re left with just cocaine

when it dries out cracks form, more dangerous than normal cocaine - requires a much lower dose (cheaper)

Question 13

how is crack normally taken?

Answer 13

smoking from a crack pipe which passes quickly into your bloodstream

Question 14

what does cocaine do to dopamine

Answer 14

prevents reuptake so it stays released and continues the feeling of “feeling good”

Question 15

Amphetamine

Answer 15

WW2 soldier to increase aggression + make u feel good

abused in military prison
low dose: colds, fight to flight (adrenaline increases aggression)
medium: stay awake+aggressive
high dose: recreation
- euphoria -> dopamine release, psychosis

Question 16

Benzedrine inhaler

Answer 16

contained 250mg amphetamine
- decongested nose with a blob of amphetamine and channels creates with a cross-section for measured doses

Question 17

amphetamine extraction with Coca-Cola

Answer 17

If you cracked open the tube and put it into coke, the amphetamines would dissolve and if you drink the coke, you get a very high dose which would create a euphoria

Question 18

amphetamines and depression

Answer 18

medium dose - sold as a pill to treat depression - make you feel good

JFK- Dr. Feelgood

Question 19

methamphetamines - 1990’s

Answer 19

pseudoephedrine was used to make meth
- cold medication converted into meth easily

vasoconstrictor:
- dries secretions in your nose
- shuts off blood supply to teeth and mouth - teeth die
meth face: no blood supply and skin dies (soars + scars

Question 20

Opioids

Answer 20

poppy plant latex
injections: hypodermic seringe

examples: morphine
- painkiller
- addiction became popular after giving patients higher doses than needed

Question 21

non addictive version of morphine:

Answer 21

Heroin - non-addictive caugh suppressant
BUT actually much more addictive then morphine
- usually injected, you can damage a blood vessel, if it gets damaged it collapses so that you don’t bleed out but the blood supply is then cut off

Question 22

Codeine

Answer 22

common medicinal opiate

oxycodone- thebaine chemically converted from opium

Question 23

Oxycotin

Answer 23

hillbilly heroin
- artificial drug - opium -> thebaine -> oxy

main source today is stolen from pharmacies

Question 24

Why is it not good that opiates are stolen from pharmacies?

Answer 24

they are important painkillers!! patients need them, but doctors are reluctant to use it for terminal patients and those with chronic pain

Question 25

hallucinogens

Answer 25

always been popular
- serotonin agonists - important for the central part of our brain

Question 26

examples of drugs with serotonin-like effects

Answer 26

psilocybin - magic mushrooms
bufotenine- Cane toads -> gland that secretes liquid to keep off predators
ergotamine- ergot: found on rye
- can be converted into lysergic acid

Question 27

LSD

Answer 27

discovered by Albert Hoffman
- hallucinations - religious significance
- used by the CIA at McGill
- Flying

Question 28

timothy leary Harvard

Answer 28

• made a little cult
• gave drugs to his students

Question 29

Atropine

Answer 29

flower that was used as a cosmetic
dilates pupils - attractive, women used it to dilate pupils

used in surgery - paralyzes you and restarts the digestive system

Question 30

Scopolomine

Answer 30

truth serum
- Reduces a person’s inhibitions so you tell a person something you wouldn’t normally tell them but not necessarily the truth

Question 31

Fentanyl

Answer 31

industrial strength painkiller
- safe if ou use it the right way

Question 32

methylphentanyl and carfentanyl

Answer 32

• initially legal - designer drugs
• users died from overdose - small measurement - a mistake can create a VERY bad problem
• lethal doses are small

Question 33

counterfeit opioids

Answer 33

• cheaper to make
• make oxycontin or heroin that contains fentanyl instead

Question 34

how does the use of a filler work?

Answer 34

you can measure a larger quantity to accurately and consistently measure the dose of the drug

ex: chocolate chip cookie - chocolate chips (active ingredient)

batter= fuller
chocolate chips (drug)

if you mix long enough there will be an equal distribution of chips in each cookie (good!), but if you’re in a hurry, each cookie will now have the same amount of chocolate chips

the pharmaceutical industry is very careful and monitor to make sire it all mixes in an equal distribution

• sloppy drug dealer = very dangerous risk of overdose

Question 35

ecstasy (MDMA)

Answer 35

wanted to find something that it could be a treatment for, like mental illnesses
- it failed and couldn’t be a product

then was tested in the military - reduces a person’s inhibitions

80’s = party drug
- auditory hallucinations -> used at raves

1988= illegal
- interferes with body temperature
- reduces lack of judgment = sexual assaults

Question 36

where is ecstasy made today?

Answer 36

in illegal labs

• the tabs are not pure and have contaminants like mercury and other drugs with adverse effects

today tabs don’t actually contain ecstasy

Question 37

Are test kits reliable?

Answer 37

in order for them to work the right way, you need the right drug + you need to mix the chemicals properly

• more than one test is required

Question 38

Cathinone

Answer 38

stimulant - leaves chewed
- aggression, dangerous ways
- tested as a weight loss drug - failed

Question 39

Synthetic cathinone

Answer 39

crystals large and salt-like “bath salts”
- high dose: psychosis + aggressive
blamed for very violent killings

toxicology couldn’t identify the drug, only cannabis, so fingerprints are needed, but if the drug was never in the system and there is no fingerprint to match… you cant find it

Question 40

Demerol

Answer 40

painkiller - Michael Jackson’s favorite

a group was flipped to make MPPP which was very toxic
- caused paralysis

Question 41

MPTP

Answer 41

vert toxic, and destroys brain tissue

L-DOPA: could restore some movement but its not permanent it wears off overtime

Question 42

why were amphetamines useful for people working in factories

Answer 42

it was used for repetitive tasks to help focus more

Question 43

what is the issue with “smart drugs”

Answer 43

they may make you FEEL better but they won’t make you PERFORM better

and there are side effects, they may:
1. help
2. impair