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drugs:

A drug , broadly speaking, is any substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function. drugs

Types of DRUGS:

Types of DRUGS

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Drug Name: Alcohol Drug Type: Depressant Facts for Parents: 25% of 8th graders have admitted to being intoxicated at least once. Other Names: Beer, wine, liquor, cooler, malt liquor, booze How Consumed: Orally Effects: Addiction (alcoholism), dizziness, nausea, vomiting, hangovers, slurred speech, disturbed sleep, impaired motor skills, violent behavior, fetal alcohol syndrome, respiratory depression and death (high doses).

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Alcohol Alcohol is no safer than drugs. Alcohol impairs judgment and leads to memory lapses. It can lead to blackouts. It distorts vision, shortens coordination, and in addition to the brain can damage every other organ in the body.

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Drug Name: Amphetamines Drug Type: Stimulant Facts for Parents: Chronic use can induce psychosis with symptoms similar to schizophrenia. Other Names: Speed, uppers, ups, hearts, black beauties, pep pills, capilots , bumble bees, Benzedrine, Dexedrine, footballs, biphetamine How Consumed: Orally, injected, snorted, or smoked Effects: Addiction, irritability, anxiety, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, depression, aggression, convulsions, dilated pupils, dizziness, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, malnutrition. Increased risk of exposure to HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases if injected.

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Amphetamines Most amphetamines are produced in backyard laboratories and sold illegally. People who buy amphetamines illegally are often buying these drugs mixed with other substances that can have unpleasant or harmful effects. .

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Drug Name: Methamphetamines Drug Type: Stimulant Facts for Parents: Some users avoid sleep 3 to 15 days. Other Names: Speed, meth, crank, crystal, ice, fire, croak, crypto, white cross, glass. "Ice" is the street name for the smokeable form. How Consumed: Orally, injected, snorted, or smoked Effects: Addiction, irritability, aggression, hypothermia, stroke, paranoia, psychosis, convulsions, heart and blood vessel toxicity, hallucinations, arrhythmia, formication (the sensation of insects creeping on or under your skin).

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Methamphetamines It increases alertness , concentration, energy, and in high doses, can induce euphoria , enhance self-esteem , and increase libido . .

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Drug Name: Ecstasy Drug Type: Stimulants Facts for Parents: Ecstasy is popular at all-night underground parties (called raves) and is the most common designer drug. Other Names: XTC, Adam, MDMA How Consumed: Orally Effects: Psychiatric disturbances, including panic, anxiety, depression, and paranoia. Muscle tension, nausea, blurred vision, sweating, increased heart rate, tremors, hallucinations, fainting, chills, sleep problems, and reduced appetite

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Ecstasy Causes difficulty differentiating reality and fantasy, and causes problems concentrating. Studies have found that ecstasy destroys certain cells in the brain.  While the cells may re-connect after discontinued use of the drug, they don't re-connect normally. Like most drugs, this one impairs memory and can cause paranoia, anxiety, and confusion.

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Drug Name: Ritalin Drug Type: Stimulant Facts for Parents: Some children buy or steal from their classmates Other Names: Speed, west coast How Consumed: Tablet is crushed, and the powder is snorted or injected. Effects: Loss of appetite, fevers, convulsions, and severe headaches. Increased risk of exposure to HIV, hepatitis, and other infections. Paranoia, hallucinations, excessive repetition of movements and meaningless tasks, tremors, muscle twitching.

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Ritalin This drug is often prescribed to treat attention deficit disorder. It is becoming an illicit street drug as well. Drug users looking for a high will crush Ritalin into a powder and snort it like cocaine, or inject it like heroin. It then has a much more powerful effect on the body. It causes severe headaches, anxiety, paranoia, and delusions

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Drug Name: Herbal Ecstasy/Ephedrine Drug Type: Herbal Ecstasy, Cloud 9, Rave Energy, Ultimate, Xphoria , and X Facts for Parents: The active ingredients in Herbal Ecstasy are caffeine and ephedrine. How Consumed: Orally Effects: Increased heart rate and blood pressure. Seizures, heart attacks, stroke, and death.

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Herbal Ecstasy a sympathomimetic amine commonly used as a stimulant , appetite suppressant , concentration aid, decongestant , and to treat hypotension associated with anaesthesia

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Drug Name: Designer Drugs Drug Type: Stimulants Facts for Parents: Changing the molecular structure of an existing drug or drugs to create a new substance creates Designer drugs. Other Names: Synthetic heroin, goodfella How Consumed: Injected, sniffed, or smoked. Effects: Instant respiratory paralysis. Potency creates strong possibility for overdose, many of the same effects as heroin.

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Designer Drugs

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Drug Name: Cocaine Drug Type: Stimulant Facts for Parents: Cocaine is a powerfully addictive drug. Heavy use may produce paranoia, hallucinations, aggression, insomnia, and depression. Other Names: Coke, snow, nose candy, flake, blow, big C, lady, white, snowbirds. How Consumed: Snorted or dissolved in water and injected. Effects: Addiction, pupil dilation, elevated blood pressure and heart rate. Increased respiratory rate, seizures, heart attack, insomnia, anxiety, restlessness, irritability, increased body temperature, death from overdose.

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Cocaine Although often used to enhance sex drive, physical effect of cocaine on the receptors in the brain reduce the ability to feel pleasure (which in turn causes the dependency on the drug).

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Drug Name: Heroin Drug Type: Opiates Facts for Parents: Heroin users quickly develop a tolerance to the drug and need more and more of it to get the same effects, or even to feel well. Other Names: Smack, horse, mud, brown, sugar, junk, black tar, big H, dope. Effects: Addiction. Slurred speech, slow gait, constricted pupils, droopy eyelids, impaired night vision, nodding off, respiratory depression or failure, dry itching skin, and skin infections. Increased risk of exposure to HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases if injected.

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Heroine Heroin is a highly addictive opiate (like morphine). Brain cells can become dependent (highly addictive) on this drug to the extent that users need it in order to function in their daily routine. While heroin use starts out with a rush of pleasure, it leaves the use in a fog for many hours afterwards. Users soon find that their sole purpose in life is to have more of the drug that their body has become dependant on.

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Drug Name: PCP Drug Type: Hallucinogens Facts for Parents: Marijuana joints can be dipped into PCP without the smoker's knowledge. Other Names: Angel dust, ozone, rocket fuel, peace pill, elephant tranquilizer, dust. How Consumed: Snorted, smoked, orally, or injected. Effects: Hallucinations. Out-of-body experiences, impaired motor coordination, inability to feel physical pain, respiratory attack, disorientation, fear, panic, aggressive behavior. Increased risk of exposure to HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases if injected. Death.

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PCP

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Drug Name: LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethyl amide) Drug Type: Hallucinogen Facts for Parents: LSD is the most common hallucinogen. LSD tabs are often decorated with colorful designs or cartoon characters. Other Names: Acid, microdot, tabs, doses, trips, hits, sugar cubes. How Consumed: Tabs taken orally or gelatin/liquid put in eyes. Effects: Elevated body temperature and blood pressure, suppressed appetite, sleeplessness, tremors, chronic recurring hallucinations.

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LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethyl amide) While some people use LSD for the sense of enhanced and vivid sensory experience, it can cause paranoia, confusion, anxiety, and panic attacks. Like Ecstasy, the user often blurs reality and fantasy, and has a distorted view of time and distance

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Drug Name: Inhalants Facts for Parents: Hundreds of legal household products can be sniffed or huffed to get high. All inhalants can be toxic. Other Names: Laughing gas, whippets, aerosol sprays, cleaning fluids, solvents. How Consumed: Vapors are inhaled Effects: Headache, muscle weakness, abdominal pain, severe mood swings and violent behavior, nausea, nose bleeds; liver, lung, and kidney damage; dangerous chemical imbalances in the body, lack of coordination, fatigue, loss of appetite, decreases in heart and respiratory rates, hepatitis, or peripheral neuropathy from long-term use.

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Inhalants Inhalants, such as glue, gasoline, hair spray, and paint thinner, are sniffed. The effect on the brain is almost immediate. And while some vapors leave the body quickly, others will remain for a long time. The fatty tissues protecting the nerve cells in the brain are destroyed by inhalant vapors.

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Drug Name: Marijuana Facts for Parents: The average age of first use is 14. Can be smoked using homemade pipes and bongs made from soda cans or plastic beverage containers. Other Names: Weed, pot, reefer, grass, dope, ganja, Mary Jane, sinsemilla , herb, Aunt Mary, skunk, boom, kif , gangster, chronic, 420. How Consumed: Smoked or eaten. Effects: Bloodshot eyes, dry mouth, impaired or reduced comprehension, altered sense of time, reduced ability to perform tasks requiring concentration and coordination --such as driving a car, paranoia, intense anxiety attacks, altered cognition, making acquisition of new information difficult; impairments in learning, memory, perception, and judgment; difficulty speaking, listening effectively, thinking, retaining knowledge, problem solving.

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Marijuana The parts of the brain that control emotions, memory, and judgment are affected by marijuana.  Smoking it can not only weaken short-term memory, but can block information from making it into long term memory. It has also been shown to weaken problem solving ability .

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Drug Name: Steroids Facts for Parents: Steroid users subject themselves to more than 70 % potentially harmful side effects. Other Names: Rhoids , juice How Consumed: Orally or injected into muscle Effects: Liver cancer Sterility, masculine traits in women and feminine traits in men, aggression, depression, acne, mood swings.

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Steroids Anabolic steroids are used to improve athletic performance and gain muscle bulk. Unfortunately, steroids cause moodiness and can permanently impair learning and memory abilities

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Drug Name: Tobacco Facts for Parents: 1 in 5 12th graders is a daily smoker. How Consumed: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco (chew, dip, and snuff). Effects: Addiction, heart disease, cancer of the lung, larynx, esophagus, bladder, pancreas, kidney, and mouth. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis, spontaneous abortion, low birth weight.

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Tobacco Tobacco is a dangerous drug, putting nicotine into your body. Nicotine affects the brain quickly, like other inhalants, producing feelings of pleasure, like cocaine, and is highly addictive, like heroin.

Project in M A P E H:

Project in M A P E H Prepared by: Gerard Edison S.A. Navarro III- Our Lady of Consolation