Drug Notes

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Drug Notes

• Informing you about what they do, what they
  cause, and why NOT to do them.

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OTC-Over the counter drugsControlled Drug-
possession, manufacture, distribution, and sale
is controlled by lawIllegal drug use- use of a
drug without a prescription
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Stimulants

• A group of drugs that speed up the activities of
  the central nervous system (CNS)
• Increase blood pressure
• Increase heart rate
• Increase breathing rate
• Always cause a crash
• Intense high, followed by and intense low

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Types of stimulants

• Cocaine
• Highly addictive
• Made from leaves of the coca bush
• Snorted (7 seconds to reach high)
• Injected (15 seconds to reach high)
• Smoked (3 minutes to reach high)
• Also known as coke, blow, gold dust, white lady,
  snow

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Types of Stimulants

• Crack
• Purified cocaine
• Smoked to produce rapid and intense reaction
• Type of free base cocaine
• Also known as rock
• Methamphetamine
• From the amphetamine family
• Similar effects as cocaine
• Smoke-able form is ICE
• Also known as meth, crank, crystal meth, crystal
  ice, crystal tea

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More types of stimulant drugs

• MDMA
• Mild hallucinogenic
• Reduces inhibitions and anxiety
• Produces a feeling of empathy for others
• Extreme relaxation
• Suppress the need to eat, drink, and sleep
• Causes brain damage
• Causes the body to overheat
• Leads to strokes
• Also known as ecstasy, XTC, X, E, Adams

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Sedatives

• Hypnotics-depress activities in the CNS
• Flunitrazepan- date rape drug
• Also know as roofies, barbs, bank bandits, ludes,
  red, block busters

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Narcotics

• Slow down the CNS and relieve pain
• Morphine- made from opium
• Codeine- produced my morphine
• Heroin-
• illegal narcotic derived from morphine
• injected, snorted, and taken as a pill
• high risk of HIV and Hepatitis B from users
  sharing needles
• Black tar heroin- produced in Mexico
• Dark in color and sticky in texture
• Also known as smack, junk, horse, and chiva

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Hallucinogens

• A group of drugs that interfere with the senses
• Causes the user to imagine seeing things, sounds,
  and feelings
• Effects can last several hours

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Types of hallucinogens

• LSD
• Illegal hallucinogen sold in the form of powder,
  tablets, liquid, or capsules.
• Blotter acidsmall paper squares that contain LSD
• Causes pupils to dilate
• Skin becomes flush
• Heart rate and body temperature increase
• Bad tripsterrifying hallucinations
• Also known as acid, trips, Lucy, diamonds,
  microdots

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More hallucinogens

• PCP (angel dust)
• Acts as a stimulant, sedative-hypnotic, or
  painkiller
• Sold illegally in the forms of liquid, powder or
  pills
• Swallowed, smoked, or sniffed
• Feel restless, disorientated, anxious, isolated,
  angry, aggressive and invinciblemay appear to be
  in a trance
• Also known as angel dust, zombie, rocket fuel, hog

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Types of Hallucinogens

• Ketamine
• Hallucinogen thats used as an anesthetic drug in
  veterinary clinics
• Sold illegally in the form of liquid, powder or
  pill
• Most often stolen from the veterinary clinics
• Effects last for a shorter amount of time
• Sometimes given as a date rape drug
• Also known as special K, vitamin K, K, cat
  valium, and bump

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Some more hallucinogens

• Mescaline
• A hallucinogen made from the peyote cactus
• Same effects as LSD
• Psilocybin
• Hallucinogen made from a specific type of
  mushroom
• Similar to LSD and mescaline
• Known as magic mushrooms, Shrooms, mushrooms
• Flashbacks
• sudden hallucinogens a person has long after
  having used a hallucinogenic drug

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Marijuana

• Dried leaves and tops of the cannabis plant that
  contain THC
• THCa drug found in cannabis plant that produces
  psychoactive effects
• is a fat soluble drug that settles and builds up
  in the fatty organs of the body (brain, heart
  liver_
• smoked or eaten
• when smoked its called a joint or blunt
• effects depends on the amount of THC
• in the past it contain as much as 1-5 of THC,
  nowadays it has as much as 8-15
• Also known as chronic, reefer, ganja, Mary Jane,
  pot, grass, weed.

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Hashish

• A drug made from marijuana
• Smoked alone
• Mixed with tobacco
• Eaten in cookies or candies

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Hashish oil

• Liquid resin from the cannabis plant
• Place din cigarette or in hashish pipes and smoked

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Hashish and Hashish Oil

• Both considered stronger than marijuana
• All considered gateway drugs
• Use of drugs increases the likelihood that a
  person will use other harmful drugs.