1. Artificial States of Consciousness
Psychoactive Drugs, Hypnosis, & Meditation

2. Psychoactive Drugs

3. Essential Questions How do psychoactive drugs affect consciousness?
How are drugs classified?
How does culture and our environment influence drug use?

4. Depressants What are some examples? A What do they do?
Brain Activity; Motor Functions
What are some examples? A B T

5. Opiates What do they do? What are some examples?
Often called narcotics
What originally used for?
What are some examples? H M O

6. Stimulants What do they do? What are some examples? To brain activity?

7. Psychedelic Drugs What are they used for? Some Examples…
“Mind Manifesting”
Perception and Thinking
Some Examples… M L

8. Club Drugs
What are they used for?
Designer Drugs
CLUBS
Examples E P

9. Depressants - inhibit brain activity, slow body function
Opiates – chemically similar to morphine, pain relief and euphoria, mimic the brain’s endorphins
Stimulants - increase brain activity, speed up body function, produce feelings of optimism and boundless energy
Psychedelics - distort sensory perceptions
Club Drugs-Used at clubs/raves, synthetic

10. Psychoactive Drugs Change mood and perceptions
What are the 5 different types of psychoactive drugs?

11. Use V Abuse
Use: when you are 21, going to the bars with your friends on Friday night to relax and have fun
Abuse: when you are 21, going to the bars with your friends every night because you need to de-stress
Abuse: recurrent substance use that results in disruption of academic, social or occupational functioning or in legal or psychological problems
Create your own Use v Abuse and put it on your warm-up paper

12. Dependence V Addiction
Does anyone know the difference?
Opiates are a good example (morphine)

13. PHYSIOLOGICAL Dependence
When your body develops a dependence for the drug; it is basically UNAVOIDABLE when dealing with physical problems.
Must take the drug to avoid withdrawal
PHYSIOLOGICAL

14. Psychoactive Drugs
Addiction: psychological compulsive need for and use of a habit- forming substance
Examples: drugs, sex, gambling, eating, alcohol, tobacco, pornography, exercising, internet?

15. Psychoactive Drugs Common Properties: Physical dependence Tolerance
Withdrawal symptoms
Drug rebound effect

16. Tolerance
Increasing amounts of a physically addictive drug are needed to produce the original, desired effect
Examples?

17. Drug Drug dose Big Response to first exposure After repeated
Small
Large
Drug dose
Little
effect
Big
Drug
Response to
first exposure
After repeated
exposure, more
drug is needed
to produce
same effect

18. Withdrawal Symptoms
Unpleasant physical reactions, combined with intense drug cravings
Occur when abstaining from a drug when physically dependent
Examples?

19. Rebound Effects Withdrawal symptoms are opposite to the drugs action
Examples?

20. Before drug use
After drug use

21. Before drug use
After drug use

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