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Club Drugs

Club Drugs. What Are Club Drugs?. Club drugs are a group of psychoactive drugs that tend to be abused by teens and young adults at bars, nightclubs, concerts, and parties. MDMA (ecstasy). What is MDMA? MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) MDMA, called “adam,” “ecstasy,” or “XTC”.

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Club Drugs

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  1. Club Drugs

  2. What Are Club Drugs? Club drugs are a group of psychoactive drugs that tend to be abused by teens and young adults at bars, nightclubs, concerts, and parties.

  3. MDMA (ecstasy) • What is MDMA? MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) MDMA, called “adam,” “ecstasy,” or “XTC”

  4. Effects Organ Failure Heart Attack Coma Death • Nervous • Agitated • Depression • Exhaustion • Dehydration • High Blood Temperature • Hyperthermia

  5. Side effects • Rapid Eye Movement • Tension • Teeth Clenching • Nausea • Blurred Vision • Faintness • Chills • Sweating

  6. Psychological Effects • Depression • Loss of appetite • Fatigue • Confusion • Sleep disturbances • Anxiety • Paranoia • Psychotic episodes

  7. Drug Purity • Add pics

  8. The Love Drug • Takes about 20 min • Lasts 3-6 hrs sometimes longer • Sense of well-being • Euphoria • Enhanced sense of touch • Boost in energy • Feel more sexual

  9. OD • Extreme nausea • Unable to sweat or urinate • Muscle cramps • Unconscious • Overheated

  10. Rohypnol Dangerous when taken on its own, and fatally dangerous when combined with alcohol, Rohypnol is horrifyingly infamous for being the "date-rape drug"

  11. Rohypnol is tasteless and odorless, and it dissolves easily in carbonated beverages. The sedative and toxic effects of Rohypnol are aggravated by concurrent use of alcohol. Even without alcohol, a dose of Rohypnol as small as 1 mg can impair a victim for 8 to 12 hours.

  12. What does Rohypnol look like?

  13. Effects • Effect within 20 to 30 minutes • Tolerance • With other drugs

  14. Are there other drugs that are being abused like Rohypnol?

  15. Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) • What is it????

  16. GHB

  17. Effects Of GHB What GHB does to you depends on: • how much you take • the type of GHB you take • your height and weight • your general health • your mood • your past experiencewith GHB • whether you use GHB on its own or with other drugs • whether you use alone or with others, at home or at a party, etc.

  18. Immediate effects of small amountsof GHB You May: • feel good and confident • feel excited or upset • take more risks than usual • have a heightened sense of touch • want to have sex • feel drowsy or sleepy • suffer memory lapses • feel dizzy • get headaches • suffer from tremors • feel sick • have diarrhoea or urinary incontinence • effects on your body may include that: • your heart beats slower • your body temperature lowers

  19. Large amounts of GHB If you take high doses of GHB you may: • feel dizzy • suffer from tremors • vomit • get tunnel vision • become uncoordinated (ataxia) • become disorientated • feel confused, irritated or agitated • hallucinate • have blackouts and memory lapses • have convulsions (fits) • have a heart attack • overdose • go into a coma

  20. OD • Appear to be asleep but cannot be woken. • Be incoherent, sweating profusely, vomiting and have irregular or shallow breathing. • Not be able to stand and/or have involuntary muscle contractions. • An overdose of GHB can cause: • Faster, irregular or weak heartbeat • Breathing problems • Heart attack • Coma • Death.

  21. Withdrawal • confusion, agitation, anxiety, panic • paranoia • insomnia • shaking • muscle cramps • perspiration • delirium • deep depression (feeling very down or sad) • hallucinations • tachycardia (rapid heartbeat)

  22. Ketamine Can: • Reduce sensations in the body • Make some people physically incapable of moving while under the influence. • Cause changes in how people see and hear things. • Cause confusion, panic attacks, and depression

  23. Risks • You don't feel pain properly • Mixing with other drugs • Bladder problems • Abscesses • Mental Health

  24. Methamphetamine

  25. Rush High EuphoriaAgitation Violence Insomnia Decreased appetite Irritability What are its short-term effects? • Anxiety • Nervousness • Convulsions • Heart Attack

  26. What are its long-term effects? • Tolerance • Paranoia • Hallucinations • Repetitive behavior • Delusions of bugs • Psychosis • Stoke • Death

  27. Withdrawal • Feeling moody or flat, right through to being severely depressed • Lack of energy, lethargic, exhaustion • Getting no enjoyment or pleasure from usual activities • Feeling irritable, angry, having a ‘short fuse’ • Feeling agitated so you can’t sit or lie still, feeling anxious or nervous • Having aches and pains • Sleep disturbance, insomnia • Problems with concentration and memory • Cravings to use meth

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