NARCOTICS

Essential QuestionWhat is a narcotic and how does it affect the human body? What is a hallucinogen and how does it affect the human body?

Narcotics – specific drugs derived from the opium plant that are obtainable only by prescription legally and are used to relieve pain

relieve pain by blocking messengers to the brain

use can cause euphoria, drowsiness, constipation, pinpoint pupils, slow and shallow breathing, convulsions, coma, and death

highly addictive Ex: prescription painkillers

Heroin highly addictive narcotic processed form of morphine that is

injected, snorted or smoked depresses the CNS slows breathing and pulse can cause infection of heart lining and

valves easily developed tolerance withdrawal can be very painful

Hallucinogens drugs that alter moods, thoughts, and

sense perceptions including vision, hearing, smell, and touch.

No medical use!! overload the sensory controls in the

brain altered state can last for several hours or

several days effects are unpredictable

PCP distorts sense of time and space

increased muscles strength

inability to feel pain

flashbacks can occur

LSD (acid) distorts sound and color changes emotions ranging from euphoria to panic and

depression flashbacks

Ketamine anesthetic mostly used on animals misused as a club drug snorted powder or injected also smoked and cause hallucinations

Mushrooms psilocybin changes the audio, visual, and tactile

senses grown only in Central and South America

Ecstasy and Designer drugs Designer Drugs – synthetic substances

meant to imitate the effects of hallucinogens and other dangerous drugs

vary greatly can be 100 times stronger than the drug

meant to imitate

Drug Bingo! If you think you win, you must give the

definition for all 5 of your words. For the first game, draw a circle in the

box. For the second game, draw a square in

the box. For the last game, shade in the box.

Essential QuestionWhat is a narcotic and how does it affect the human body? What is a hallucinogen and how does it affect the human body?