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

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

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

StimulantsDrugs 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

Reading on nicotineRead and annotate Define words at the bottom

Anti Smoking Campaigns

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

Cocaine and crackDiagram 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

Author’s purpose: Myths about crackRead and annotate: myths about crack (individually)

In groups fill out author’s purpose (part 1 and 2)

DiscussionIndividually fill out part 3

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

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

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

Effects of Methamphetamines ReadingMeth effects reading-read and annotate

Frontline Video: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/Answer movie questions on sheet (#1-4)

Watch brain video (#5)Scroll through pics