CAFFEINE!
History
Chocolate
Cocaine
Amphetamines
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The effects of caffeine and other xanthines
What is arousal, alertness, wakefulness, increased heart rate and blood pressure, increased kidney output (diuretic). Lethal dose (~10 GRAMS) would cause heart attack, seizure or stroke.
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The Aztecs used this as currency
What are cacao beans
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According to a study published in 1996, chocolate has measurable amounts of _____________, an endocannabinoid present in the human brain.
What is anandamide.
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Cocaine can be used medicinally for this
What is a local anesthetic
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Lethal effects of amphetamines.
What is cardiovascular damage, heart attack, stroke, seizure and chronic psychosis.
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Caffeine is an antagonist on these receptors.
What is adenosine, which has an inhibitory neural effect in the brain. It causes vasodilatation in cardiovascular system (it slows things down, in a different mechanism than GABA) so it acts of blood vessels to open up and make blood flow more easily.
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Vin Mariani was a very popular drink sold in the late 19th century that contained a mixture of which two psychoactive ingredients
What is wine and coca leaves
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If a bar of chocolate is 77 percent chocolate, the rest of the bar is likely made up of this.
What is sugar.
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Body-packer overdoses of cocaine are due to this route of administration.
What is oral-digestive.
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Amphetamine-type drugs are used to treat these things.
What is appetite suppression, asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and maintenance of alertness in military operations.
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Where tea consumption originated and how it migrated across cultures
What is 3000 years ago in China. It was used in ritual consumption during tea ceremonies flourished in Buddhist temples and monasteries.
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Alfred Peet (1920-2007) opened the first Peet’s coffee store in Berkeley in 1966. He originally came from this country.
What is the Netherlands. (Peet's father ran a small coffee roastery before World War II. After the war, Peet left London, where he had apprenticed with a coffee and tea company, and worked as a tea taster in the Dutch East Indies and New Zealand before immigrating to San Francisco, California in 1955, where he worked in the coffee importing industry.)
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This is the four-step process of making chocolate.
What is coca beans are picked, fermented, roasted and ground into a paste.
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Adding calcium carbonate (from ground limestone) is put into the mouth together with coca leaves in order to do this.
What is calcium carbonate facilitates the absorption of alkaloids from the coca leaves
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While amphetamine is a Schedule Two controlled substance, cathinone, found in the khat plant (Catha edulis), is a Schedule _______ controlled substance.
What is schedule 1. (Khat contains a monoamine alkaloid called cathinone, an amphetamine-like stimulant, which is said to cause excitement, loss of appetite and euphoria. In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified it as a drug of abuse that can produce mild-to-moderate psychological dependence (less than tobacco or alcohol), although WHO does not consider khat to be seriously addictive. The plant has been targeted by anti-drug organizations such as the DEA. It is a controlled substance in some countries, such as Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, while its production, sale, and consumption are legal in other nations, including Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Yemen.)
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The main difference between green teas and black teas
What is green teas are NOT fermented and oxidized and black teas are fermented and oxidized.
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In his first book, Sigmund Freud advocated the use of this drug
What is cocaine
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Theobroma cacao, which we get chocolate from, comes from the Greek words theos and bromas, which mean this in English.
What is "food of the Gods."
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Erythroxylum coca is native to this region
What is South America
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The main source of norepinephrine in the brain comes from neurons in this part of the brain.
What is thalamus locus coeruleus.
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An 8-ounce cup of typical coffee contains approximately this much caffeine.
What is 100 MG
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Albert Niemann was a German chemist known for doing this.
What is pruifying cocaine from coca leaves in 1862. (He followed the tradition that had been established when in 1874 C. R. Alder Wright extracted heroin from morphine.)
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These molecules are found in chocolate.
Caffeine and theobromide are two xanthines found in chocolate.
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Cocaine exerts its effects at the synapse by doing this.
What is blocking reuptake of dopamine and norepinephrine.
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Sympathomimetic effects of amphetamine-type drugs are due to the increase of concentration of synapses from this neurotransmitter.
What is norepinephrine.