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Using Drugs Properly

Learn about using drugs properly, including medications and illegal substances. Discover the effects, risks, and consequences of misusing and abusing drugs, such as marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, and hallucinogens.

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Using Drugs Properly

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  1. Using Drugs Properly • Drug – non food substance taken into the body that can change the structure or the function of the body or mind • Medicine – drug that is used to treat an illness or relieve pain

  2. Read Package label • Directions explain medications purpose and how to use it • Warnings about any side effects and when to ask a doctor before using the medicine • A list of active ingredients • The expiration date, which is the date after which the medicine should not be used

  3. Misusing and Abusing Drugs • Takes more than the recommended or prescribed dosage of a medicine or mixes medicines without asking a doctor • Continue to take medicine after it is no longer needed • Stops taking a prescribed medicine sooner than the doctors in instructions indicate

  4. Misusing and Abusing Drugs 2 forms of drug abuse • Illegal – Using substances that are illegal, marijuana, cocaine, LSD • Legal drugs – Using a legal drug in a harmful way, painkillers

  5. Marijuana • Mood altering drug • Made from leaves of the HEMP plant • Usually smoked when rolled in cigarette paper, in pipe or mixed with food • Can make you feel relaxed, sad, fearful, and suspicious • Short and Long term effects – PAGE- 303

  6. Stimulants • Drug that speeds up the bodies functions • Cocaine, crack cocaine • Increases heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure • Most stimulants are illegal • People can become addicted to stimulants

  7. Amphetamines • Strong stimulant drugs that speed up the nervous system • Come in many forms and can be smoked, inhaled, swallowed or injected • Gives user feeling of energy and makes them stay awake • Page 304 – side effects of amphetamines

  8. Amphetamines

  9. Cocaine and Crack Cocaine • White powder made for leaves of the coca plant • Inhaled, injected, smoked • Gives a brief feeling of power but quickly replaced by anxiety and depression • First time users run risk of addiction or fatal heart attack

  10. Crack cocaine and Cocaine

  11. Cocaine and Crack Cocaine • Crack Cocaine – concentrated form of cocaine • When smoked reaches the brain in 10 seconds • Produces feeling of energy and excitement, feeling only lasts about 15 minutes • Then user feels depressed and raves more of the drug

  12. Depressants • Drugs that slow down the body’s functions and reactions, including heart and breathing rates • Come in tablet or capsule form and are swallowed • Doctors sometimes prescribe to treat sleeplessness or anxiety • Tranquilizers

  13. Depressants

  14. Depressants • Make the user feel very relaxed • Abusers experience mood swings or depression • If mixed with alcohol can cuase coma or death

  15. Other Illegal drugs • Inhalants – substances whose fumes are breathed and produces mind altering sensations (glue, paint gas, spray paint) • Causes nausea, vomiting and brain damage, coma, death

  16. Inhalants

  17. Other Illegal drugs • Narcotics – Drugs that relieve pain and dull senses • Some are legal but very carefully controlled by doctor • Morphine and codeine, oxycotten

  18. Other Illegal drugs • Hallucinogens – drugs that distort moods, thoughts and senses • LSD, PCP • People may become violent, due to imaginary images sounds or distortions of real objects

  19. LSD

  20. PCP

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