Question: For this task, you will prepare a lecture suitable for a community college course on the pharmacological effects of a particular drug of abuse. You may choose one of the following as the format for this presentation: prepare a recorded lecture with an accompanying transcript of the lecture or submit a written lecture as a paper.
Include the following in your lecture:
- Choose a commonly abused drug and gather information on the drug's pharmacology.
- Discuss how the drug is typically administered, absorbed. and distributed throughout the body.
- Include the concept of biotransformation; explain where it occurs and identify the pharmacological processes involved.
- Explain the difference between effective dose and lethal dose and how these concepts relate to the therapeutic index of the drug you are presenting.
- Discuss how this particular drug affects the process of neurotransmission and include in your discussion the impact this drug has on specific neurotransmitters.
- Be sure to include information on tolerance (neuroadaptation) with this particular drug and the different types of tolerance experienced with this drug.
- In addition to information found in the course text, find at least three research articles relevant to the pharmacology of the drug you are presenting (published within the past 5 years) to support your lecture.