- Chemistry of Mind Altering Drugs

Catalog description

The Chemistry of Mind-Altering Drugs course explores how drugs influence the human mind and describes the chemistry of psychoactive drugs, including substances of abuse. Separate chapters are dedicated to alcohol and tobacco, while other chapters include narcotics, sedative-hypnotic drugs, psychotherapeutic drugs, stimulants such as cocaine, caffeine and amphetamines/methamphetamines, marijuana, hallucinogens and over-the-counter drugs. Pharmacology and physiology of drug use are explored, as well as motivations for drug use, drugs and the law, substance abuse treatment and drug prevention and education.