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Recreational Drugs • Let’s go through the chart • Please share stories about yourself, your friends, your “friends”, your family, movies you have seen, and books you have read. Don’t be shy, just anonymize the story. • Please ask questions 1 Recreational Drugs Chart • Read chart • Share • Ask questions 2 Recreational drugs Other recreational drugs: • Salvia divinorum – Mechanism: probably a κ opioid receptor agonist. Effects: convincing, enveloping hallucinations, strange emotions, thoughts, and sensations, strong emotions. • Amanita muscaria – Mechanism: GABAA agonist (like benzodiazepines and barbiturates). Effects: Less vivid hallucinations, perceptual changes, somewhat sedating. 3 Recreational drugs Other recreational drugs: • Nicotine – Mechanism: nicotinic ACh receptor agonist. Effects: energy, clearer thought and memory, sometimes experienced as relaxing, especially by people who already have an addiction. • Caffeine – Mechanism: adenosine receptor antagonist, inhibits the phosphodiesterase which breaks down cAMP. Effects: energy, wakefullness, alertness, concentration, headache relief. 4 Recreational drugs Other recreational drugs: • Methaqualone (Quaalude, Sopor), thalidomide, meprobamate (Milltown), carisoprodol (Soma), glutethimide, chloral hydrate (knockout drops, Micky), ethchlorvynol (Placidyl), methyprylon, primidone – Mechanism: GABAA agonism. Effects: Relaxation, euphoria. • Muscle relaxants (cyclobenzaprine) – Mechanism: various. Effects: Relaxation, euphoria. 5 Good, authentic movies with drugs • • • • • • • • • • Blow Go Trainspotting Goodfellas Basketball Diaries Drugstore Cowboy Ray Leaving Las Vegas Less Than Zero Spun Spoiler alert! 6 Good, authentic movies with drugs • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Blow Go Trainspotting Goodfellas Basketball Diaries Drugstore Cowboy Ray Leaving Las Vegas Less Than Zero Spun 7 Cocaine Ecstasy Heroin Cocaine Heroin Prescription opioids Heroin Alcohol Crack cocaine Methamphetamine Good movies, inauthentic drug use • • • • • • Pulp Fiction Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Big Lebowski Boogie Nights Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle Dude, Where’s My Car Terrible movie, horribly inauthentic drug use: • Requiem for a Dream 8 Discussion: Drug Laws What do you know about drug laws? 9 Discussion: Drug Laws Should marijuana be legal? 10 Discussion: Drug Laws Should marijuana possession just warrant a ticket, like it does now in Massachusetts? 11 Discussion: Drug Laws Should medical marijuana be legal? 12 Discussion: Drug Laws Agonist substitution? Methadone clinics? Heroin clinics? 13 Discussion: Drug Laws Should salvia be illegal? 14 Discussion: Drug Laws Should alcohol be illegal? 15 Discussion: Drug Laws Should we lower the drinking age to 18? 16 Discussion: Drug Laws Is it good that we keep pseudoephedrine cold medicines behind the counter? 17 Discussion: Drug Laws Should there be any legal access at all to mindexpanding or recreational drugs, like psychedelics? What about heroin? 18 MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu ES.S10 Drugs and the Brain Spring 2013 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms.
