Research Catalog

Title

• 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.

Author

Kuhn, Cynthia.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Foster, Jeremy.
• Swartzwelder, Scott.
• Wilson, Leigh Heather.
• Wilson, Wilkie.

Description

345 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Provides information on the most often used and abused drugs, including how they manipulate the brain.

Subject

• Drugs of abuse > Popular works
• Illicit Drugs
• Nervous System > drug effects
• Substance-Related Disorders

Genre/Form

• Popular Work
• Popular works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-290) and index.

Contents

• Introduction -- Just say know (A college student's perspective by Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy Foster) -- Test your drug knowledge -- pt. I. Alcohol -- Liquor, whiskey, booze, hooch, wine, beer, ale, porter -- Caffeine -- Coffee, tea, soft 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) -- Herbal drugs --^
• Herbal X-tacy, smart drugs, ginseng, melatonin, etc. -- Inhalants -- 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 -- 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), meperidine (Demerol), diphenoxylate (Lomotil), hydrocodone (Vicodin), fentanyl (Sublimaze)-- Sedatives --^
• 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 -- Steroids, roids, juice -- Stimulants -- 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) -- pt. II. Brain basics -- Drug basics -- Addiction -- Legal issues -- Further reading -- Glossary of drug-related street terms/slang words.

ISBN

0393324931 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003011411

OCLC

52295263

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library