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ILLEGAL DRUGS

ILLEGAL DRUGS. 1. Why is illegal drug use dangerous?. Damage to brain and body addiction major factor in suicide, accidents and crimes risk of spreading disease through sharing needles can result in overdose leads to making irresponsible decisions.

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ILLEGAL DRUGS

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  1. ILLEGAL DRUGS

  2. 1. Why is illegal drug use dangerous? • Damage to brain and body • addiction • major factor in suicide, accidents and crimes • risk of spreading disease through sharing needles • can result in overdose • leads to making irresponsible decisions

  3. 2. The reasons people begin using drugs are similar to the reasons they begin to drink or smoke. What are these reasons? • Experiment • Escape depression / boredom • Enjoyment of risky behavior • Belief that drugs solve personal problems • Peer pressure • Media glamorizing drug use

  4. 3. While there are many different illegal drugs, all illegal drugs have 3 things in common.What are these 3 things? • Affects function of the brain • Dangerous to health • Result in drug dependence and addiction

  5. 4. What are some of the effects marijuana has on the body? • Slowed thinking • Difficulty paying attention • No sense of time or distance • Loss of short term memory • Shrinks your brain

  6. Video/8:29

  7. 5. Can you become dependant on marijuana? Yes, both physical and psychological dependence can happen

  8. 6. Can marijuana use affect your driving? If so, how? It can slow your reaction time and impair your judgment. Yes, much like how alcohol affects your driving.

  9. 7. STREET NAMES POT TEXAS TEA MARYJANE ASTRO TURF HEMP REEFER HERB GRASS Ganja WEED J DOPE ROACH

  10. WHAT IS MARIJUANA? Marijuanais a word used to describe the dried flowers, seeds, and leaves of the Indian hemp plant. Cannabis describes any of the different drugs that come from Indian hemp, including marijuana and hashish. Hashish is a related form of the drug, made from resins of the Indian hemp plant. Regardless of the name, this drug is an hallucinogen – a substance which distorts how the mind perceives the world you live in. The chemical in cannabis that creates this distortion is known as THC. The cannabis plant, from which marijuana is derived, has over 400 different chemicals.

  11. Marijuana and School Marijuana and school don’t mix. Marijuana makes it harder for users to concentrate, and slows thinking down. One of the prevalent effects of marijuana is the decline in school performance. Marijuana damages the user’s memory and things such as simple math problems become extremely difficult. video./2:07

  12. Video/3:16 Certain synthetic compounds deceptively labeled as "bath salts" and synthetic marijuana products (K2 or spice) have been added to Penalty Group 2 of the Texas Controlled Substances Act. Law Covers: Synthetic Cannabinoids, Synthetic Marijuana, Herbal Potpourri Spice (K2, Spike99, Wicked-X)

  13. Bath salts – effects similar to methamphetamine and cocaine. Video – 5:28

  14. 8. What are inhalants? What are 2 legal inhalants used by physicians? Drugs that are inhaled as vapors such as Asthma Inhaler Laughing Gas

  15. INHALANTS WHAT ARE THEY? SNIFFING Users may inhale the chemical vapors directly from open containers Inhalants refers to the vapors from toxic substances which are inhaled to reach a quick high The chemicals are quickly absorbed through the lungs into the bloodstream and quickly reach the brain and other organs There are more than 1,000 household products that could be used as inhalants Produce effects similar to anesthetics, which slow down the body’s functions The user experiences an initial high and loss of inhibitions, then drowsiness, lightheadedness, and agitation Because they reach the brain with a faster speed and force than other substances, they can cause irreversible physical and mental damages. HUFFING Breathing the fumes from rags soaked in a chemical substances

  16. 9. What type of effects might you experience from inhalants? • Hyperactivity • loss of inhibitions • Dizziness • loss of coordination • difficulty speaking and thinking

  17. CLICK PICTURE ON RIGHT Video/4:21

  18. LONG TERM 10. EFFECTS OF INHALANTS SHORT TERM Slurred Speech Drunk, dizzy, or dazed Unconsciousness Severe headaches DEATH from suffocation Muscle weakness Lack of coordination Depression Hearing loss Deaths from heart failure Serious and sometimes irreversible damage to the heart, liver, kidneys, lungs and brain

  19. 11. STREET NAMES • Air blast • Highball • Satan’s Secret • Hippie Crack • Shoot the Breeze • Amy • Huff • Snappers • Bolt • Whippets • Whiteout • Toilet Water • Oz • Locker Room • Texas Shoe Shine • Pearls

  20. 12. ECSTASY (MDMA) WHAT IS IT? Ecstasy is a synthetic, psychoactive drug that is chemically similar to the stimulant methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline. Ecstasy (MDMA) produces feelings of increased energy, euphoria, emotional warmth, and distortions in time, perception, and tactile experiences

  21. 13. STREET NAMES California Sunrise ADAM BEANS

  22. 14. SHORT TERM EFFECTS FALSE SENSE OF AFFECTION IMPAIRED JUDGEMENT SLEEP PROBLEMS

  23. 15. LONG TERM EFFECTS of ecstacy • Long lasting brain damage affecting thought and memory • Damage to portions of the brain that regulate critical functions such as learning, sleep and emotion (Write 3 down) • Depression • Anxiety • Kidney Failure • Hemorrhaging • Psychosis • Cardiovascular collapse • Convulsions • DEATH

  24. HEROIN

  25. 16. Highly addictive, illegal drug Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants. 17. Most heroin is injected Risks - AIDS or other infections from sharing needles on top of the pain of addiction. Milky, sap-like opium is first removed from the pod of the poppy flower. This opium is refined to make morphine, then further refined into different forms of heroin.

  26. 18.Street names

  27. DEATH Sedation; drowsiness SHORT TERM EFFECTS BREATHING SLOWED

  28. 19. • INFLAMMATION OF THE GUMS • COLD SWEATS • COMA • LOSS OF MEMORY • DEPRESSION LONG TERM EFFECTS Abscesses from use of needles pockmark the body of a 16 year old addict

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