ShowID

531

Event Date:

8/16/2006

Length:

00:58:05

Category:

GSU Telecourse

Producer

GSU

Project

Substance Abuse: Current Concepts

Comments

Comments: Focuses primarily on barbiturates and benzodiazepines. Students learn how sedative-hypnotics drugs reduce CNS (Central Nervous System) activity, despite their differing chemical origins. The lesson explains how use of these drugs can progress from simple relaxation (sedation) at low doses to coma and death in higher doses. Discussion also uncovers how these drugs, normally used to induce lethargy, can induce unexpected behaviors due to loss of inhibition.

LocalID:

SACC D2T4

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