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Decks in this class (24)

Week 1: Introduction + Some Basic Pharmacology
Smoke and solids,
Rate of elimination,
How do non lipid soluble substanc...
70  cards
Week 2 : Behavioural Analysis of Drug Effects
How were the effects of drugs on ...,
What was the primary problem with...,
Jacques joseph moreau
71  cards
Week 3: How we Adapt to Drugs – Tolerance, Sensitization, and Expectation
Tolerance,
Acute tolerance,
Tolerance is
26  cards
Week 3 Reading : How we Adapt to Drugs - Tolerance, Sensitization and Expectation
Drug tolerance,
Tolerance effects,
What is the main cause of tolerance
26  cards
Week 4: Neurophysiology, Neurotransmitters, and the Nervous System
Neurons role,
Glia role,
Who first discovered that the ner...
74  cards
Week 5: Alcohol
What do we mean by alcohol,
What are the 2 methods for making...,
Origin and history of alcohol
31  cards
Week 5: Cocaine & Psychomotor Stimulants
What s one thing in monnon with s...,
Sources and history of stimulants,
Amphetamines
25  cards
Week 5 Reading: If alcohol were discovered today, would it be legal?
What s the psychoactive part of a...,
Recent harms of alcohol,
The european centre for monitorin...
29  cards
Week 5 Reading: Cocaine – from chewing to crack (or, eats shoots and leaves)
Intro concepts,
Routes of use and main associated...,
Chewing
21  cards
Week 6: Opiates
What are opioids also called,
Problem with the term nacrotic,
What is the natural source of opium
58  cards
Week 6 Reading: Prescription Drugs; the US Opioid Crisis
Diversion two problems that can o...,
Most common prescription drugs th...,
Fentanyl
35  cards
Week 7 : Tobacco and Vaping
History of tobacco,
History of tobacco,
King james 1 on smoking
37  cards
Week 7: Cannabis (only in exam)
Cannabis sativa history,
The cannabinoids,
Neuropharmacology of cannabis and...
38  cards
Week 7: Reading -Ch5. Cannabis and why did Queen Victoria Take it?
Cannabis intro,
Three uses of cannabis,
Cannabis as hemp
10  cards
Week 8- LSD, Psilocybin, and MDMA
What does the word psychedelic de...,
Psychedelics are defined by lexico,
How does the illegality of psyche...
60  cards
Week 8- Harm Reduction
What is harm reduction,
Maia szalavitz on harm reduction,
Core principles of harm reduction 8
28  cards
Week 8 Reading: Chapter 2 (Is Ecstasy more Dangerous than Horse Riding)
Basic premise,
Comparing horse riding with ecstasy,
Equasy
11  cards
Week 8 Reading: Chapter 3 (How can we Measure the Harms Done by Drug)
Evidence based comparison of harms,
What should a drug classing syste...,
How many types of harm where iden...
28  cards
Week 8 Reading : Chapter 17 (The War on Drugs)
Quote by nixon that started the w...,
Use of drugs in the real wars,
Cultural background for the war o...
25  cards
Week 9 ; Drug Policy Lecture
What should drug policy be based on,
Over reporting of ecstasy related...,
Ecstasy and the media frenzy
24  cards
Week 10- Drugs and Psychiatric Disease: Anxiety
What are both anxiety and depress...,
Anxiolytics and sedative hypnotic...,
Before barbiturates what were the...
24  cards
Week 10: Drugs and Psychiatric Illness: Depression
Quote showing how people can expe...,
Prevalence of depression across l...,
Is depression more common in men ...
22  cards
Week 10: Drugs and Psychiatric Illness - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia prevalence what is ...,
Symptoms of schizophrenia,
Onset of schizophrenia
23  cards
Week 11 - Substance Use and Addictive Disorders
Substance use summary,
How do you define addiction,
Psychiatric definition
52  cards

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