Hypnosis, Meditation,

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Hypnosis, Meditation, Drugs
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Hypnosis

• Cooperative social interaction
• Works well for some things pain control, wt.
  Loss
• Not for others quitting smoking

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Hypermnesia

• Attempts to enhance memory via hypnosis
• Hasnt worked well so far but
• The more relaxed you are, the better you recall
  things.

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Meditation

• Sustained concentration techniques that focus
  attention and heighten awareness
• Effects of meditation
• -lower b.p., decrease h.r., and change brain
  waves.

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DRUGS

• Think what is the definition of a dangerous
  drug?
• Which drug is the most widely used?
• Which drug is the most lethal?
• Write your answers now.

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Psychoactive drugs

• Alter synaptic transmission among neurons.
• Biological effects of a given drug can vary
  somewhat due to age, weight, sex, and race.

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DEPRESSANTS

• Alcohol, barbiturates inhalants
• All depress the CNS
• Produce drowsiness, sedation, sleep
• All potentially addictive
• Have additive effects

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Alcohol

• Involved in half the traffic accidents
• At least 65 of homicides
• Can die from symptoms or direct o.d.

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Barbiturates Tranquilizers

• Barbs-powerful dep.
• Reduce anxiety
• Promote sleep but
• Interfere with REM
• Common names seconal, quaaludes
• Withdrawl can be life threatening

• Tranks- dep that relieve anxiety.
• Valium, librium, xanax.

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Inhalants

• Paint, gas, glue, nitrous oxide.
• Not the same chemically, but effects same.
• Suffocation hazard, toxic to liver, other organs.

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Stimulants

• Such as nicotine, caffeine, cocaine
  amphetamines.
• All increase brain activity
• Most widely used?
• caffeine

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Nicotine

• Highly addictive stimulant
• Probably the most dangerous drug we have studied
• Responsible for approximately 400,000 deaths a
  year
• Impacts others as well lung cancer, LBW, pet
  death

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In addition, nicotine

• May be instrumental in causing depression
• Is related to mental illness (bipolars,
  schizophrenics)
• Is strongly correlated to alcoholism

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Amphetamines/Cocaine

• Meth-longer lasting than coke cheaper.
• Users lose dopamine transporters.
• Memory motor skills problems.
• Cocaine euphoria, alertness, self confidence.
• Stimulant psychosis-may get itchy hallucinations

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Psychodelics

• Mescaline, LSD, marijuana
• LSD profound psychological effects w/ relatively
  few physiological changes.
• Bad trips can produce psychotic episodes.
• symptoms can get you hurt and its possible to
  create psychotic reactions.

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Marijuana-THC

• High doses can create sensory distortions
• Low to moderate sense of well-being, mild
  euphoria
• Useful in treatment of nausea, glaucoma,
  epilepsy, asthma, M.S.

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Ectasy, Ketamine, PCP

• Ectasy dehydration, rapid h.r., tremors,
  hyperthermia.
• Females more likely to have brain damage than
  males.
• Memory and verbal problems persisted up to a year
  after the last dose taken.

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PCP

• Developed as an anesthetic for surgery
• Can produce a coma or stupor
• Can last for days.
• May have exaggerated strength.
• Can become violent and suicidal.
• Highly addictive.