Nicotine Replacement Therapy Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) involves the use of products that give low doses of nicotine to addicts. NRT is effective in that it helps to relieve cravings and possible symptoms that may result from quitting tobacco. Nicotine replacement therapy can come in different dose forms: gums, skin patches, lozenges, nasal sprays, and inhalers. Nicorette is a form of NRT that involves the use of gum. Nicorette is a gum-like product that releases a controlled amount of nicotine through the lining of the cheeks.
Heroin and opiates release endorphins in the body, called dopamine, causing users to need an opiate continuously. The human brain has an opiate receptor in the brain. Methadone occupies this receptor and is the stabilizing factor that permits addicts on methadone to change their behavior and to discontinue opiate use. Because methadone is effective in eliminating withdraw symptoms, it is used to detoxify opiate addicts. When an
Amy Kim Mr. Unsinger/ Admin Justice January 5, 2012 The “Miracle Drug” Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from leaves of the coca plant. It is one of the most widely used illegal drug in the United States. This plant has been used for thousands of years in other parts of the world. The coca plant was first scientifically discovered by Albert Neiman in 1860 which received its name of cocaine. Cocaine was pioneered by Sigmun Freud, a neuropathologist, that used this as a treatment for postnatal depression.
In 1936, the propaganda film "Reefer Madness" was made n an attempt to scare young Americans away from using marijuana. The film directly stated that smoking marijuana causes insanity. On October 2, 1937, without any open debate, scientific enquiry, or political objection, President Roosevelt signed the Marijuana Tax Law. The law made it illegal to possess marijuana in the U.S. without a special tax stamp issued by the U.S. Treasury Department. On the very day the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act was passed, the FBI and Denver police raided the Lexington Hotel and arrested two
It can be either smoked or injected. Heroin is primarily produced in Colombia, Mexico, Southeast Asia, and Afghanistan. It comes in there forms: brown, china white and pharmaceutical heroin. It is most commonly injected, smoked, or snorted. It is a depressant drug – it makes the heart beat more slowly, breathing slows down and blood pressure falls.
(NDICC) Powder Cocaine Power cocaine (cocaine hydrochloride) powder cocaine is call a stimulant, this drug is take from a leaves of the coca plant. It came from South America in the late 19th century, this was used as a anesthetics. When this drug was used for a long period you built a tolerance to it. You lost that feel from when you first started to
It was used as medicine in the United States until 1937 when a new tax fee led to its discontinued use. In 1972 marijuana was placed in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, meaning that the government considered it to have "no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States." Marijuana's schedule can be changed by Congress, the DEA, or the
This is the idea that a person who uses Marijuana will become addicted to harsher drugs such as Heroin, Cocaine, Angel Dust, and other potentially deadly drugs. The reasoning behind this is that a person who usually buys Marijuana, buys it from a dealer who also sells other drugs as well. The dealer after a while will offer the buyer a newer drug, and supposedly the buyer would accept, thus the gateway theory. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. In 1944 “The LaGuardia Report” was released, this was a report that studied the gateway effects and other associated Marijuana myths.
Formulate a verbal hypothesis statement concerning cross addictions, substitute addictions, and addiction transfer. Psychologists have helped to expose the struggles of addicts; no longer is recovery a major issue on the journey to sobriety, but the resistance to avoid new addictions is an additional struggle plaguing their lives. Addiction is a brain disease. Charles Graham, the program manager at Sober Living by the Sea (an addiction treatment center) states, “When a person gets clean and sober from one drug and then encounters stress or anxiety, the probability of resorting to another drug having the same effect” (Vivo, 2012). The transference of one addiction (like alcoholism) to another addiction (such as drug addiction) is known as addiction transfer in the discipline of psychology.
The Chinese used it for medication for gout, malaria. In India it was only used for recreation. But after over decades of marijuana use U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics portray the drug as addicting substance