Drugs and the Nervous System (Revised) (Use Nc1691)

Duration: 18

Year Published: 1972

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Examines the effects of both the medically prescribed and the unlawful use of drugs on the body and explores the type of character development young people with extended drug usage might exhibit. Discusses how medically prescribed amounts of drugs such as aspirin affect the nervous system indirectly to eliminate discomfort and how other prescribed drugs are effectively used to ameliorate body functions. Describes how stimulants and depressants such as glue fumes, opium, heroin, amphetamines, marijuana, and LSD affect body functions by slowing down heart beat, contracting blood vessels, increasing anxiety, and distorting time and space perception.

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