ECSTASY

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ILLEGAL DRUGS
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What is a psychoactive drug?
A drug that affects the brain.
What are illegal drugs?
A drug whose production or use is prohibited or
strictly controlled via prescription.
What are Controlled Substances?
A drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession,
or use is regulated by the government and under
legislative control. This may include illegal
drugs and prescription medications.
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Why is illegal drug use dangerous?

• dangerous/permanent damage to brain and body
• become addicted
• major factor in suicide, accidents and crimes
• risk of spreading disease through sharing needles
• can result in overdose
• drug use leads to making irresponsible decisions

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The reasons people begin using drugs are similar
to the reasons they begin to drink or smoke.
What are these reasons?

• Desire to experiment
• Desire to escape depression/boredom
• Enjoyment of risky behavior
• Belief that drugs solve personal
  problems
• Peer pressure
• Media glamorizing drug use

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Steps to Addiction

• Regular drug use
• Tolerance
• Dependence
• Addiction

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Drugs that lead to the use of other drugs are
called what?
Gateway drugs
What are the 3 most common ones?
Tobacco
Alcohol
Marijuana
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DRUG CLASSIFICATIONS
All drugs, legal and illegal, are classified into
different categories based on their similar
effects on the mind and body.

• Depressants
• Stimulants
• Hallucinogens
• Club/Designer
• Opiates

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What areDEPRESSANTS?

• Drugs that slow down the central nervous system.

Ex slowed breathing and heart rate, and may make
it hard to speak (slurred speech) or move
properly.

• People using depressants may feel sleepy and
  relaxed.
• Depressants are most often prescribed for anxiety
  and sleep disorders.

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Common Depressants

• Alcohol
• Barbiturates
• Tranquilizers
• Ambien
• Rohypnol (Roofies)

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What areSTIMULANTS?

• Drugs that speed up the central nervous system.

• People using stimulants may feel happy and
  excited, and have more energy, concentration or
  motivation.

• Stimulants make it difficult to sleep and
  suppress your appetite.

• Most stimulants have more
  side effects than other drugs.

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Common Stimulants

• Caffeine
• Nicotine
• Cocaine
• Amphetamines
• Bath salts

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What areHALLUCINOGENS?

• Hallucinogens change the way people see, hear,
  feel or think.

• Most common hallucinogen is LSD.

• LSD leads the user to a serious disconnect from
  reality.

• LSD users call an LSD experience a trip,
  usually lasting 12 hours or so. When things go
  wrong, which often happens, it is called a bad
  trip, another name for a living nightmare!

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Common Hallucinogens

• Marijuana (mild)
• Mushrooms
• LSD
• Spice/K2/Synthetic Marijuana

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What are CLUB/DESIGNER DRUGS?

• Psychoactive drugs that tend to be abused by
  teens and young adults at bars, night clubs, and
  raves.

• Their properties and effects are similar to
  known hallucinogens or narcotics, but have a
  slightly altered chemical structure.

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Common Club Drugs

• Ecstasy
• PCP
• GHB
• Ketamine
• Meth
• LSD
• Rohypnol (Roofies)

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What areOPIATES?

• Also known as narcotics

• Powerful, highly addictive drugs

• Derived from the poppy plant

• Used to relieve pain

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Common Opiates

• Morphine
• Heroin
• Oxycontin
• Percoset
• Vicodin/hydrocodone

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Lets take a look at some of the most
common Illegal drugs.
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What isMARIJUANA?
Marijuana is a word used to describe the dried
flowers, seeds, and leaves of the Indian hemp
plant.
The cannabis plant, from which marijuana is
derived, contains the chemical THC which creates
the distortion.
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Effects of Marijuana

• SHORT-TERM

LONG-TERM

• Sensory distortion
• Panic/Anxiety
• Lowered reaction time
• After an initial up, the user feels sleepy or
  depressed
• Increased heart rate

• Apathy, drowsiness, lack of motivation
• Personality and mood changes
• Rapid destruction of lung fibers and lesions to
  the brain could be permanent
• Reduction of male sex hormones
• Reduced resistance to common illnesses
  (cold, bronchitis)

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Marijuana
Marijuana can actually be classified as a
stimulant, depressant, or hallucinogen based on
the strand or potency, but for all intents and
purposes, we will classify marijuana as a mild
hallucinogen.
Can you become dependent on marijuana?
YES, you can build a tolerance and a dependence
to it.
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Can marijuana use affect your driving? If so,
how?

• Yes, much like how alcohol affects your
  driving.

It can slow your reaction time and impair your
judgment.
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Marijuana and School
Marijuana and school dont mix. Marijuana makes
it harder for users to concentrate and slows down
thinking.

• One of the prevalent effects of marijuana is the
  decline in school performance.

Marijuana damages the users memory and things
such as simple math problems become extremely
difficult.
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What areINHALANTS?

• Drugs that are inhaled as vapors.

The 2 most common inhalants used for medical
reasons are
Laughing Gas
Asthma Inhaler
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What type of effects might you experience from
inhalants?

• Hyperactivity,
• loss of inhibitions, dizziness, loss of
  coordination, difficulty speaking and thinking,
  fear, anxiety, depression, DEATH

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What isECSTASY?
Ecstasy is a synthetic, psychoactive drug
chemically similar to the stimulant
methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline.
Ecstasy (MDMA) produces feelings of increased
energy, euphoria, and distortions in time and
perception.
Most commonly called molly. Coined
terminology when on the drug rolling.
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What isHEROIN?
Extremely Addictive Narcotic
Most heroin is injected, creating additional
risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS
or other infections along with addiction.
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What isCOCAINE?

• Cocaine was originally developed as a painkiller.
• Most often sniffed with the powder absorbed into
  the bloodstream through the nasal tissues.

• Most rapid form of absorption is through
  injection, but this increases the risk of
  overdose.

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What isCRACK COCAINE?

• Crystal form of cocaine that is heated and
  smoked.
• It is so named because it makes a cracking or
  popping sound when heated.
• The most potent/riskiest form in which cocaine
  appears.
• Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more
  quickly and brings an intense and immediate high
  that last about 15 minutes.

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What isCRYSTAL METH?

• White, Crystalline Drug

Develops a strong desire to continue using it
because the drug creates a false sense of
happiness and well-being -- A RUSH of
confidence, hyperactivity and energy.

• People take it by
• Snorting
• Injecting
• Smoking
• Orally

most commonly used as a CLUB DRUG taken while
partying in night clubs and at raves
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What areSTEROIDS?
A synthetic version of the male hormone
testosterone
What type of effects might this drug have on an
adolescents body and mind?
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Physical Effects

• Bones will mature early, growth can be stunted,
  can cause severe acne,
• increased cholesterol,
• rapid weight gain,
• liver damage,
• kidney tumors,
• heart disease
• and heart attacks.

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• Can cause
• breasts
• to grow in males.

Can shrink the testes and reduce sperm count.
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Mental Effects

• Feeling of paranoia, panic attacks,
  depression, anxiety and even suicidal thoughts

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• ROID RAGE

can lead to violent behavior, crime, assault and
rape.
Makes abusers more irritable and aggressive.
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With all the bad side effects, death included,
why do you think people still use drugs?
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What would be some alternatives to drug or
substance use?