Drugs
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How do Drugs work?
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_______________ or substances that __________ the way our bodies __________.
Drugs find their way into our ________ __________ and transported to parts of our body.
In the brain, may ____________ or _______ senses, alter your sense of alertness, sometimes decrease physical
pain
Harmful or helpful
Effects depend upon
– ________ of drug
– How much
– How ________
– How quickly gets to brain
– What other ____________
– Food or substances taken at same time
– Differences in body ________, __________, and ___________
Why people take drugs?
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Someone tried to convince them
Belief that they will make you think better
Be more popular
Become better athletes
Curious and figure one try won’t hurt
Gain attention from parents
Believe that drugs will help them escape problems
Stimulants
• Drugs that _______________ the central nervous system.
• Some stimulants are used for medical purposes.
• Many of these are used illegally
• Most dangerous ones are amphetamines, _____________, ____________ , and_________________________.
Effects and Dangers
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Hit users with a fast high
 Making them feel powerful, alert and energized
Heart rate, breathing, blood pressure __________________
________________, shaking, headaches, ______________________ and blurred vision can also occur.
Prolonged use can cause hallucinations and intense paranoia.
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Methamphetamine
• White odorless powder
• Made in makeshift labs
• Readily available, quality uncertain
• Been identified as one of the many dangerous and illegal substances called club drugs.
• Crystal Meth ________________________________________________
Effects and Dangers
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Users feel a euphoric rush, especially if smoked or shot up.
After more and longer use result in sleeplessness, paranoia and hallucinations.
Sometimes have intense________________, ex. Believing that there are ________________________________
Prolonged use may result in violent, aggressive behavior, psychosis and brain damage.
Increased heart rate, blood pressure
Can cause death
Addictiveness
Very highly addictive
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Depressants
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_________________, drugs that tend to _______________ the central nervous system.
Relax muscles, relieve feelings of tension and worry, cause drowsiness
Dangers:____________ the heart rate, lower blood pressure to dangerous levels, interrupt normal rate of
breathing
Most common is _______________
Examples: are Rohypnol and GHB.
Rohypnol (ro-hip-nol)
• Forget-me pill
• Date rape drug
How It’s Used
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Swallowed
Sometimes mixed with alcohol or other drugs
Usually slipped into people drinks at parties
Effects and Dangers
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Prescription anti-anxiety med that is 10 times more powerful than Valium
Cause blood pressure to drop
Cause memory loss, drowsiness, dizziness, and an upset stomach.
Though depressant, it can cause over excitement or aggressive behavior
Effects and Dangers
Many teens girls and women report having been raped after having the drug slipped
Hard to remember what happened while on the drug, like a blackout.
– Makes it hard then to report important details when wanting to report a rape
Narcotics/opiates (_________________________)
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Specific drugs derived from the ______________ plant obtainable only by prescription and are used to
________________.
Examples: Morphine, Oxycontin, codeine, Heroin
Relieve pain by blocking pain messengers in the brain.
Cause euphoria, drowsiness, constipation, pinpoint pupils, slow and shallow breathing, convulsions, coma, and
death
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Heroin
• Comes from the dried milk of the _______________ _______________
• Can range from a white to dark brown powder to a sticky, tar-like substance
Effects and Dangers
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Burst of euphoric feelings, especially if injected
High is followed by ________________, nausea, stomach cramps,________________
Feel a need to take more asap just to feel good again
Long term use, ravages the body.
Associated with chronic constipation, dry skin, scarred veins and breathing problem
Injectors – often have _______________________
Put themselves at risk for getting deadly infections of ________, Hepatitis B or C, and bacterial endocarditic
(inflammation of the lining of the heart) if used shared ______________________.
Addictiveness
Extremely addictive
Easy to overdose to cause death
Withdrawal is intense could include:
– Insomnia
– Vomiting
– Muscle pain
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Hallucinogens
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Drugs that alter ________________, ______________ and __________________, including vision, hearing,
smell, and touch.
Drug overloads the sensory controls in the brain
Brain then confuses and intensifies sensations and __________________.
Impair judgment and reasoning and increase heart and respiratory rates
Mental states caused by the drug can last for several hours or even several days.
Effects are extremely unpredictable
Users sometimes harm themselves physically
Demonstrate other violent behaviors
Examples: PCP, LSD, ketamine, ecstasy
LSD OR ACID
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Lab brewed hallucinogen and mood changing chemical
Odorless, colorless, and tasteless
Effects and Dangers
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Hallucinations occur within 30 to 90 min
Senses are intensified and distorted – they see colors or hear sounds with other delusions such as melting walls
and a loss of any sense of time.
Effects are unpredictable, depending on how much and user
Once on an acid trip, can’t get off until the drug is done with you, could be 12 hours or longer.
Effects and Dangers
Bad trips could cause panic attacks, confusion, depression, and frightening delusions.
Could cause sleeplessness, mangled speech, convulsions, increased heart rate, coma
Flashbacks in which they feel the effects of the drug at a later time without using
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Prescription
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Should only be used how med is _______________________
Should only be used by _____________________
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Over the counter Medicines
• Over-the-counter cough and cold meds contain ______________.
Effects and Dangers
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Large quantities of the meds can cause hallucinations, loss of motor control, and “out-of-body” sensations
Small doses suppress coughing (cough and cold medicines)
Larger doses cause fever, confusion, impaired judgment, blurred vision, dizziness, paranoia, excessive sweating,
slurred speech, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, headache, lethargy,
numbness of fingers and toes, redness of face, dry and itchy skin, loss of consciousness, seizures, brain damage,
even death
Inhalants
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Substances that are __________ or “___________” to give the user an immediate rush or high.
They include household products like glues, paint thinners, dry cleaning fluids, gasoline, felt-tip marker fluid, hair
spray, aerosol deodorants and spray paint.
Belief inhalants are _____________ because they can be found in
homes
How It’s Used
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Breathed in directly from container (sniffing or snorting)
From a plastic bag (bagging)
Holding an inhalant-soaked rag in the mouth (huffing)
Different Kinds
Examples: paint thinners and removers, gasoline, glues, and felt-tip markers, butane lighters, propane tanks, whipped
cream dispensers, Spray paint, deodorant, hairsprays, vegetable oil cooking sprays, static cling sprays
Effects and Dangers
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Slow down the body’s functions, similar to _________________.
Increased ___________________________
Hallucinations or delusions
Losing feeling or consciousness
Nausea and vomiting
Loss of _____________________
Slurred speech
Troubles ___________________
Dizzy
Sudden sniffing death (SSD)
Can cause suffocation due to the lack of _____________
Addictiveness
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Because most of the product that are inhaled are in the homes, people don’t realize they are incredibly
addictive.
Those who become addicted are likely to become long term users.
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Long Term Health Problems
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_________________________ – slow or clumsy, have trouble solving problems or planning ahead, suffer from
memory loss, become unable to learn new things
Muscle weakness
Depression
Headaches or _______________________
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Loss of sense of smell or hearing
Marijuana
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Most widely used illegal drug in the US
Resembles, green, brown or gray dried parsley with stems or seeds.
Called a _____________________ – frequent use can lead to the use of stronger drugs
Stronger form called hashish (hash) looks like brown or black cakes or balls
________________ is the addictive chemical that causes the high
Contains more _________ than the 80s making it ___________potent
How It’s Used
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Some mix it into food or brew it as a tea
Usually smoked –
– rolled in papers like a cigarette – joints
– In hollowed out cigars – blunts
– Pipes – bowls
– Water pipes – bongs
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Effects and Dangers
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Affect ____________ and _________________________
– May experience mood swings that range from stimulated or happy to drowsy or depressed
Elevates heart rate and blood pressure
Some get _____________ and feel very _____________ or hungry
Can also make some paranoid
Hallucinate
Tough on the ____________ (__________________)
– Steady smokers suffer coughs, wheezing, and frequent colds
Can stay in your blood stream for __________ after use.
Interferes with your________________ ____________ and could cause _____________ damage