Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy / Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson ; with Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy Foster.
From the Publisher: The third edition of the essential, accessible source for understanding how drugs work and their effects on body and behavior. Together, the first two editions of Buzzed have sold over 120,000 copies-and now the authors have revised and updated the book to include the most recent...
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New York, N.Y. :
W.W. Norton,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Just say know (a college student's perspective / Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy Foster)
- Test your drug knowledge
- Part 1: Alcohol: liquor, whiskey, booze, hooch, wine, beer, ale, porter
- Caffeine: coffee, tea, soft drinks, energy drinks, over-the-counter pain relievers and stimulants, some prescription medications
- Ecstasy: MDMA (X, XTC, Adam), MDE (Eve), MDA (love)
- Hallucinogens: 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, stink weed, mandrake); phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust, T, peace pill); ketamine (special K, K); dextromethorphan (dex, robo, red devils); salvia divinorum (ska, Maria, la Maria, ska Pastora)
- Herbal drugs: herbal x-tacy, smart drugs, ginseng, melatonin, etc
- Inhalants: nitrates (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: marijuana (reefer, pot, herb, ganja, grass, old man, blanche, weed, sinsemilla, bhang, dagga, smoke); hashish (hash, tar); hash oil (oil, charas)
- Nicotine: tobacco, nicotine chewing gum, nicotine skin patch, chewing tobacco, snuff, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco
- Opiates: 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, oxycontin), meperidine (demerol), diphenoxylate (lomotil), hydrocodone (vicodin), fentanyl (sublimaze), propoxyphene (darvon)
- Sedatives: barbiturates (phenobarbital, pentobarbital ([nembutal], secobarbital [seconal], amobarbital [amytal]); chloral hydrate (notec, somnos, felsules); glutethimide (doriden); equanil, miltown, noludar, placidly, valmid, methaqualone (Quaaludes, ludes); benzodiazepines (such as rohypnol, valium, librium, ativan, xanax, halcion, and many others); drugs designed specifically to induce sleep (zolpidem [ambien], eszopiclone [lunesta], and ramelteon [rozerem]); gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB)
- Steroids: steroids, roids, juice
- Stimulants: cocaine, (coke, blow, candy, crack, jimmy, rock, nose candy, whitecoat), amphetamine (crank, bennies, uppers), methamphetamine (meth, crystal, crystal meth, ice), ephedrine, methylphenidate (ritalin), methcathinone (cat, crank, goob)
- Part 2: Brain basics
- Drug basics
- Addiction
- Legal issues
- Further reading
- Glossary of drug-related street terms/slang words
- Index.