What is a drug?
Is there a brain-behavior relationship?
Pharmacokinetics: how do drugs get there and what do they do?
Functional neuroanatomy: where do psychoactive drugs act?
Neurophysiology: how do psychoactive drugs act?
Alcohol: the socially accepted addictive drug
Cocaine and other stimulants: drugs that make us high
Opioids: drugs that calm our pain
Nicotine: of what value?
Marijuana: the illegal recreational plant
Inhalants: not just bad breath!
Hallucinogens: drugs that make us crazy
Antipsychotics: drugs that make us sane
Anxiolytics: drugs that calm us down
Antidepressants: drugs that lift us up
Addiction: the chronic medical illness
Forensic issues in psychopharmacology.