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UppersDownersAllArounders-8thEdition-CH3.pptx3.1 - Stimulants include cocaine, methamphetamine, khat, bath salts, coffee, tea, chocolate, tobacco, and energy drinks.
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3.2 – Stimulants are the most widely used psychoactive substances in the world. Tobacco alone accounts for some 480,000 deaths per year in the U.S.
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3.3 - Many of the Mexican cartels are responsible for the import of precursor chemicals to make meth which they produce in the US.
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3.4 – Freebase or crack cocaine can be smoked more effectively than powder cocaine allowing it to reach the brain faster than snorting or drinking cocaine.
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3.5 - For some individuals cocaine can also shut down the electrical signals from the brain to the heart resulting in sudden death.
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3.6 – Because cocaine is rapidly metabolized, the speed at which the drug can get to the brain determines the quantity of cocaine available to affect it. The faster the administration method the greater quantity of cocaine available.
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3.7 - “Meth Mouth” caused by a drying out of the gums and teeth plus poor dental hygiene.
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3.8 - Many of these energy drinks contain 80 mg of caffeine whereas Monster energy drinks contain twice that amount. Massive doses of caffeine can cause heart attacks.
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3.9 – Even with decreasing use, the US Surgeon reports that tobacco was responsible for some 480,000 premature deaths in 2014.
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3.10 – Tobacco is used compulsively to maintain nicotine blood levels throughout wakeful hours preventing withdrawal symptoms.
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3.11 - Although cigarette use seems to be in decline e-cigarettes and vape pens have increased the popularity of nicotine.
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3.12 – How many things would one be willing to sacrifice 14 years of their life for? Nicotine is a subtle yet very powerful addiction.
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3.13 – In 2014 the U.S. Surgeon General reported that tobacco use was toxic to each and every organ system of the human body.
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3.14 – The health consequences of using nicotine via “vaping” in e-cigarettes have not been fully researched but nicotine is the cause of the addiction in any tobacco use.
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3.15 - ADD and ADHD is caused by a lack of profusion of dopamine to the brain. This is why stimulant drugs which produce more dopamine don’t produce stimulation in ADD and ADHD individuals. Instead stimulants increase the ability to focus on details and some elimination of distractions in those with ADD/ADHD disorder.
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3.16 – As with opiate withdrawal, the withdrawal from stimulant addiction in opposite effects as those from using uppers.
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3.17 – Cocaine does not directly result in the effects that users seek from its use. It merely releases the brain’s natural energy neurotransmitters and then exaggerates their natural effects.
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