Psychoactive Drugs Webquest
What are psychoactive drugs (find a good definition)?
Caffeine
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine
What is caffeine?
What percent of American adults consume caffeine daily?
When consumed, what does caffeine due to the human body?
What is a positive effect of consuming caffeine?
What is a negative effect of consuming caffeine?
What can occur with chronic caffeine use?
Skip to Sources:
Why does dark roast coffee have less caffeine than lighter roasts?
Despite having more caffeine than coffee, why does a typical serving of tea have less
caffeine?
How much caffeine is in a typical soft drink?
How much caffeine is in a typical energy drink such as Red Bull?
What do various manufacturers that market caffeine tablets claim?
Skip to History:
What did the Chinese emperor Shennong accidentally discover around 3000 BCE?
Where and when did knowledge of the coffee tree appear?
Skip to Effects on other organisms:
What animals is caffeine toxic to?
Nicotine
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine
What is nicotine?
What was nicotine widely used as in the past?
In lesser doses such as in cigarettes, what does the substance (nicotine) act as?
What is the stimulant effect likely to be a major contributing factor to?
What has increased over the years?
Skip to Pharmacology:
What happens as nicotine enters the body?
What factors does the amount of nicotine absorbed by the body from smoking depend
on?
Skip to Toxicology:
Historically, what has nicotine been classified as?
What is a carcinogen (click on the link)?
Skip to Medical use:
What is the primary therapeutic use of nicotine?
In what ways are controlled levels of nicotine given to patients?
In what 3 ways does nicotine appear to have significant performance enhancing effects?
Alcoholic Beverages
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage
There are many types of alcohol. What type of alcohol is found in alcoholic beverages?
What 3 classes are alcoholic beverages divided into?
For how long have alcoholic beverages been consumed by humans?
What are three examples of fermented beverages?
What is a distilled beverage?
How is the term “hard liquor” used in North America?
How are wines “fortified”?
What is the difference between an aperitif and a digestif?
The concentration of alcohol in a beverage may be given in the units ABV. What do
these letters stand for?
Click on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_health
What do short-term effects of alcohol consumption include?
What do long-term effects of alcohol include?
What does the term “sobriety” refer to?
Methamphetamine
Go to: http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/methamphetamine
What are 4 other names for methamphetamine?
What is methamphetamine?
How is methamphetamine taken?
Why do users often take repeated doses?
What does methamphetamine increase?
Is methamphetamine a prescription drug?
Methamphetamine is classified as a Schedule II drug. What does that mean?
What may people who use methamphetamine over a long term experience?
What may long term users show symptoms of?
What is chronic methamphetamine use accompanied by?
How is meth made?
What are some of the physical effects of taking even small amounts of
methamphetamine?
What are some of the long term physical negative consequences for methamphetamine
use?
What is “meth mouth”?
Cocaine
Go to: http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/cocaine
What is cocaine?
What does cocaine produce?
In what two ways are the powdered form of cocaine used?
What is crack?
Why is crack called “crack”?
What do cocaine users do in order to sustain their high?
How does this article define “addiction”?
How does cocaine effect the brain?
What causes cocaine’s characteristic high?
In what ways does cocaine use effect the body?
Why are some chronic cocaine users malnourished?
What are some of the effects of regular snorting of cocaine?
What are some of the effects of injecting cocaine?
When can cocaine use be even more dangerous?
What is a speedball?
Identify 3 celebrities who died from doing a speedball:
Narcotics
Go to: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007489.htm
What are narcotics also called?
What are they used for?
What can these drugs be effective at?
How do narcotics work?
Narcotics should always be taken under whose direct care?
One should never use a narcotic medicine for over how many months?
Looking over the list, identify which ones you have heard of:
What have these drugs been associated with?
What often occurs with these medications?
What should you not do when taking a narcotic?
What is common when you stop taking a narcotic?
What kinds of withdrawal symptoms might you get?
What might your doctor recommend to prevent withdrawal symptoms?
Hallucinogens
Go to: http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/hallucinogens-lsd-peyotepsilocybin-pcp
How long have hallucinogenic compounds been used?
What does research suggest about how these drugs work?
List four different types of hallucinogens?
In what ways are the effects of hallucinogens highly variable and unreliable?
Why can the use of hallucinogens be particularly dangerous?
What are hallucinations?
What happens under the influence of hallucinogens?
What do some hallucinogens also produce?
How do LSD, peyote, and psilocybin cause their effects?
Identify an adverse effect on health of each of the following:
LSD
Peyote
Psilocybin
PCP
How widespread is the use of hallucinogens?
Inhalants
Go to: http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/inhalants.html
What does the word “inhalants” refer to?
What re the inhalants that are most commonly abused?
Marijuana
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
What does marijuana refer to?
What is the most common illicit drug used in the United States?
When was marijuana use in decline?
What has led to an increase in use among young people since 2007?
What does the federal government consider marijuana as?
What have 21 states passed laws allowing?
How is marijuana used (please do not cut and paste)?
What are some of the effects of marijuana use?
Is marijuana medicine?
How does marijuana use effect a person’s life?
Should marijuana be legalized? Explain