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EQ 3: What are the effects of stimulants and nicotine?

EQ 3: What are the effects of stimulants and nicotine?. Bell Ringer:. What do you know about stimulants? What do you know about nicotine, cocaine and/or crack, ecstasy, meth? How are all of these drugs the same?. Psychoactive drugs.

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EQ 3: What are the effects of stimulants and nicotine?

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  1. EQ 3: What are the effects of stimulants and nicotine?

  2. Bell Ringer: What do you know about stimulants? What do you know about nicotine, cocaine and/or crack, ecstasy, meth? How are all of these drugs the same?

  3. Psychoactive drugs Psychoactive drugs: chemicals that change mental processes and behavior Alter consciousness by attaching to synaptic receptors in brain and blocking or stimulating neural activity ***Review HW reading

  4. Drug abuse Abuse: Take drugs to the point that it interferes with behavior or social relationships

  5. Stimulants Drugs that speed up or stimulate the nervous system and increase mental and physical activity Increase heart rate and breathing, pupils dilate, appetite diminishes and energy increases EX: Caffeine, Nicotine, Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Ecstasy, Ritalin

  6. Reading on nicotine Read and annotate Define words at the bottom

  7. Anti Smoking Campaigns

  8. EQ: What are the effects of cocaine and crack? Bell Ringer: Read and annotate explanation of cocaine and crack What is the difference between crack and cocaine? Draw diagram of how cocaine effects neurotransmitters

  9. Cocaine and crack Diagram of neuron: http://www.cengage.com/school/psych/franzoi/int_figs/ch15/int_figs.html Video on Crack addiction: Drug free world http://www.drugfreeworld.org/real-life-stories/crack-cocaine.html

  10. Author’s purpose: Myths about crack Read and annotate: myths about crack (individually) In groups fill out author’s purpose (part 1 and 2) Discussion Individually fill out part 3

  11. EQ 4: What are the effects of methamphetamines(stimulants)?

  12. BR-Where did meth start? What is the pattern of it’s spread?

  13. What types of places have the highest incidence of meth users?

  14. Effects of Methamphetamines Reading Meth effects reading-read and annotate

  15. Frontline Video: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/ Answer movie questions on sheet (#1-4) Watch brain video (#5) Scroll through pics

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