CH202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psilocybin Mushroom, Ayahuasca, Oxycodone
Document Summary
Could alter state of mind, physiology, homeostasis, brain, Has to be ingested, consumed has to get to your brain through the blood stream. Not all foods are drugs: exception of sugar, weed brownies, Drug a chemical substance that, when taken into the body, alters the structure or functioning of the body in the same way. Food is not a drug drug do not include nutrients considered to be related to normal functioning. Psychoactive drugs a drug that influences the functioning of the brain and hence our behaviour and experience. Increases in brain activity, energy levels, and wakefulness; increases in heart rate and blood pressure; euphoria. Decreases in brain activity, energy levels, and wakefulness; sedation and possibly unconsciousness; decreases in heart rate and blood pressure; euphoria. Marked changes in sensation or perception; marked changes in emotions / spirituality; euphoria. Pain reduction (analgesia); at higher doses depressant-like effects; euphoria.
