Buzzed

by Kuhn, Cynthia; Swartzwelder, Scott, Ph.D.; Wilson, Wilkie, Ph.D.; Wilson, Leigh Heather; Foster, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780393324938
• ISBN10: 0393324931
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

The groundbreaking original edition of Buzzed has sold over 60,000 copies?nd now the authors have revised and updated it to include the most recent discoveries about drugs. This scientifically accurate and easy-to-read handbook gives the most balanced, objective information available on the most often used and abused drugs, from alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine to heroin, ecstasy, and Special K. In both quick-reference summaries and in-depth analysis, it reports on how these drugs enter the body, how they manipulate the brain, their short-term and long-term effects, the kinds of "high" they produce, and the circumstances in which they can be deadly.Neither a "just say no" treatise nor a "how-to" manual, Buzzed is based on the conviction that people make healthier decisions when they "just say know"?hen they understand in straightforward language how our complex brains really work and why even small doses of various substances can have such powerful (and sometimes life-threatening) effects. 8 pages of color illustrations.

Author Biography

Cynthia Kuhn is a professor of pharmacology at Duke University Medical Center and heads the Pharmacological Sciences Training Program at Duke.

Table of Contents

Introduction	15	(6)
Just Say Know (A College Student's Perspective by Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy Foster)	21	(4)
Test Your Drug Knowledge	25	(6)
PART I
Alcohol	31	(28)
liquor, whiskey, booze, hooch, wine, beer, ale, porter
Caffeine	59	(15)
coffee, tea, soft drinks, over-the-counter pain relievers and stimulants, some prescription medications
Ecstasy	74	(9)
MDMA (X, XTC, Adam), MDE (Eve), MDA (Love)
Hallucinogens	83	(27)
lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-acid, blotter, California sunshine, microdot, trip, yellow sunshine, etc.); mescaline (peyote, buttons, mesc, mescal, topi); psilocybin mushrooms (boomers, magic mushrooms, shrooms); dimethyltryptamine (DMT-businessman's special); ayahuasca (caapi, yage, vegetal); belladonna alkaloids (atropine, scopolamine, belladonna, deadly nightshade, Jimsonweed, stinkweed, mandrake); phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust, T PeaCe pill); ketamine (Special K, K); dextromethorphan (Dex, robo, red devils)
Herbal Drugs	110	(12)
Herbal X-tacy, smart drugs, ginseng, melatonin, etc.
Inhalants	122	(12)
nitrites (butyl or amyl-bolt, bullets, climax, locker room, rush, poppers, snappers, aimes); anesthetics (nitrous oxide-Whippets; gaseous anesthesia agents used for surgery-halothane, ether); solvents, paints, sprays, and fuels (toluene, gasoline, glues, canned spray paint, etc.)
Marijuana	134	(28)
marijuana (reefer, pot, herb, ganja, grass, old man, blanche, weed, sinsemilla, bhang, dagga, smoke); hashish (hash, tar); hash oil (oil, charas)
Nicotine	162	(13)
tobacco, nicotine chewing gum, nicotine skin patch, chewing tobacco, snuff, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco
Opiates	175	(18)
opium (Chinese molasses, dreams, gong, O, skee, toys, zero); heroin (Big H, dreck, horse, mojo, smack, white lady, brown); heroin and cocaine (speedballs); morphine, codeine, hydromorphone (Dilaudid), oxycodone (Percodan), meperidine (Demerol), diphenoxylate (Lomotil), hydrocodone (Vicodin), fentanyl (Sublimaze)
Sedatives	193	(10)
barbiturates (phenobarbital, pentobarbital [Nembutal], secobarbital [Seconal], amobarbital [Amytal]), chloral hydrate (Notec, Somnos, Felsules), glutethimide (Doriden), Equanil, Miltown, Noludar, Placidyl, Valmid, methaqualone (Quaaludes, ludes); benzodiazepines (such as Rohypnol, Valium, Librium, Ativan, Xanax, Halcion, and many others); gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB)
Steroids	203	(7)
steroids, roids, juice
Stimulants	210	(23)
cocaine (coke, blow, candy, crack, jack, jimmy, rock, nose candy, whitecoat), amphetamine (crank, bennies, uppers), methamphetamine (meth, crystal, crystal meth, ice), ephedrine, methylphenidate (Ritalin), methcathinone (cat, crank, goob)
PART II
Brain Basics	233	(16)
Drug Basics	249	(10)
Addiction	259	(10)
Legal Issues	269	(12)
Further Reading	281	(10)
Glossary of Drug-Related Street Terms/Slang Words	291	(40)
Index	331