1 / 8

By: Aidan Connors and Andy Hsu

Prescription Drugs. By: Aidan Connors and Andy Hsu. About prescription drugs…. Most people take medicines only for the reasons their doctors prescribe them. But an estimated 20% of people in the United States have used prescription drugs for nonmedical reasons, this is prescription drug abuse.

geoff
Download Presentation

By: Aidan Connors and Andy Hsu

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Prescription Drugs By: Aidan Connors and Andy Hsu

  2. About prescription drugs… • Most people take medicines only for the reasons their doctors prescribe them. But an estimated 20% of people in the United States have used prescription drugs for nonmedical reasons, this is prescription drug abuse.

  3. Narcotic drugs • Narcotics are pain killers that if you take them too much it could be fatal • Oxycodone is a nervous system depressant, It slows down the nervous system responses, this includes respiratory and analgesia • The 2004 Survey on Drug Use revealed that 3,000,000 people over the age of 11 had tried it for a nonmedical purpose.

  4. Stimulant drugs • Stimulant drugs increase our alertness and energy for a quick moment then you’re back down. Making you want to take another. • Fastin- Phentermine is an appetite suppressant that affects the central nervous system making you loose weight very fast. • 2-5 young women use weight loss pills

  5. Depressant drugs • Depressants have effects to your body that are similar to alcohol • Xanax- is a sleeping pill that can put you in a deep sleep in heavy doses. It can also put you in a coma or even kill you • Depressants can be addictive, especially if miss used • 1 in 10 adults have trouble sleeping and use sleeping pills to help sleep

  6. Anxiety drugs • Anxiety drugs can help with many types of things, but they don’t fix them. It also is very easily to get addicted to Anxiety pills • Valium- is used to relieve anxiety, muscle spasms, and seizures and to control agitation caused by alcohol withdrawal. • 40 million people in the U.S. will experience an impairment because of an anxiety condition this year.

  7. Quiz • What were the 4 drugs we talked about? • What did oxycodone do? • How many out of 5 young women use weight loss pills? • Can Xanax kill you? • What percentage of people in the U.S. use prescription drugs for illegal and nonmedical purposes?

  8. Answers • 1. Oxycodone, valium, xanax, and fastin • 2. It slows down your thinkings and reactions. • 3. Two • 4. Yes ,when overdose. • 5. 20

More Related