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| What schedule is Cocaine? |
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| In the Andes mountains on coca bushes |
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| What are symptoms of cocaine use? |
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More alert, active, confident, anxious, restless, agressive/violent
Work long periods without fatigue
Feel euphoric, self confident, feeling of well being
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| What are acute physical effects of cocaine use? |
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| Slurred speech, thirst, coughing, sore throat, nasal irritation, perforation of nasal septum, anorexia, dry hands, blurred vision, difficulty paying attention, tremors. |
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| What are the Chronic Physical Effects of Cocaine Use? |
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| Chest pains, hypertension, tachycardia, arrhythmia, insomnia, stroke, seizures, heart attack, death. |
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| What are the psychological chronic physical effects of cocaine use? |
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| Severe paranoia, craving, irritabilit, impaired interpersonal relations, hyper excitability, lethargic when coming down, depression, cocaine psychosis, formication. |
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| What is the first phase of cocaine withdrawal? |
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The Crash Phase.
Lasts 9 hours to 6 days, initially intense craving, confusion, agitation, depression, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia followed by hypersomnia, ending with little or no craving. |
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| What is the second phase of cocaine withdrawal? |
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Withdrawal Phase.
1 to 10 weeks. Anhedonia, anergia, normal sleep reurns, very bored, irritable, craving returns THEN exacerbated by cues of triggers. |
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| What is the third and final phase of cocaine withdrawal? |
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Extinction Phase.
Indefinite period duration. Normal hedonic response, energy, cues CAUSE craving. |
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| What are the effects of the use of cocaine during a pregnancy? |
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Cocaine Babies.
Mothers use of cocaine causes vasoconstriction of placental blood vessels which decreases oxygen and nutrients to fetus.
Premature births, reduced birth weight, neonate infants may experience cocaine withdrawal. |
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| What are the effects of neonate cocaine withdrawal? |
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Irritability, hypertension, tachycardia, stroke, heart attack, death.
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| What are a few problems a cocaine baby might experience due to the mothers use? |
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| Hypersensitive to human touch, gaze aversion, learning and cognitive deficit, problems with motor skills, short attention span, delayed language development, difficult in storing and using information. |
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| What are four common uses for amphetamines? |
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1. Diet suppression
2. Asthma
3. Narcolepsy
4. ADHD |
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| Sythetic amphetamine made in the early 50's by Koreans, now called methamphetamine. |
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| Staing on amphetaphine's for a long period of time. |
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| What are the physical effects of amphetamines? |
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| Tachycardia, hypertension, increase in energy, rapid respiration, dilation of bronchial vessels, appetite suppression, speed run. |
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| What are amphetamine withdrawal effects? |
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| Extreme depression, sleep depravation, heart attacks, strokes, arrythmias, seizures, death. |
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| What is amphetamine psychosis? |
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| Long term, heavy use of amphetamines, looks like schizophrenia. |
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| What are long term effects of Methamphetamine use? |
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| Hyperthermia, sleep deprivation, cerebral hemorrhage, edema, arrhythmias, convulsions, cardiovascular collapse, accelerated tooth decay periodontal disease. |
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| What are common OTC medications used to make methamphetamine? |
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| OTC cold and allergy tablets containing ephedrine or pseudophedrine. |
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