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Illegal Drugs

Learn about the dangers of illegal drugs and medication misuse, including the risks, effects, and consequences. Explore terms like substance abuse, overdose, addiction, and the impact on individuals and society.

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Illegal Drugs

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  1. Illegal Drugs

  2. Medicine misuse • When medicines are used in ways other than intended • Carelessness • Misused intentionally

  3. Substance abuse • Any unnecessary or improper use of chemical substance for non-medical purposes • Overuse or multiple use of a drug

  4. Illegal drugs • Street drugs • Against the law to manufacture, possess, buy, or sell

  5. Synthetic drugs • Chemical substances produced artificially in a laboratory. • Regardless of how they are taken the effects are deadly

  6. Illicit drug use • Use or sale of any substances that are illegal or otherwise not permitted

  7. Gateway drugs • Drugs that often lead to other serious and dangerous drug use • Alcohol and nicotine

  8. Trends in teen drug use • Using drugs at younger ages • 11% of teens age 12 and up use drugs • More trying heroin • 9% use marijuana • Consider marijuana to be safe

  9. Overdose • A strong or even fatal reaction to taking a large amount of a drug • Accidental • Can not control quality, purity, or strength

  10. Tolerance • Need more and more to get the same effects

  11. Physiological dependence • Body develops a chemical need for the drug • Experiences severe effects when the drug is taken away

  12. Psychological dependence • Person believes a drug is needed in order to feel good or to function normally

  13. Withdrawal • Occurs when a person stops using a drug • Nervousness, insomnia, severe nausea, headaches, vomiting, chills, cramps, and death

  14. Addiction • Physiological and psychological dependence on a drug

  15. Costs of substance abuse

  16. Negatively affects performance in school, sports, relationships and family • $67 billion burden on society – criminal cost each year • 5% of the 4 million women give birth to drug addicted babies

  17. Psychoactive drugs • Stimulants – medical use • Depressants – medical use • Narcotics – medical use • Hallucinogens – no medical use

  18. Stimulants • Drugs that speed up the central nervous system • commonly abused – amphetamines, methamphetamines, cocaine • Nicotine and caffeine

  19. Cause • Increase heart and respiratory • High blood pressure • Dilated pupils • Decrease appetite • Blurred vision • sleeplessness

  20. Chronic users • Hallucinations • Delusions • Paranoia – irrational suspiciousness or distrust of others

  21. Amphetamines • Medical use has declined • Used illegally to stay awake and alert, improve athletic performance, lose weight, temporary high • Physical and psychological

  22. Euphoria • Feeling of intense well-being or elation that may be followed by a complete “crash” of letdown

  23. Methamphetamine • Used to treat diseases – Parkinson’s and obesity • Called crank, speed, or ice • Paranoid or violent • Smoked, snorted, injected or swallowed

  24. Food and water not important • Fumes alone are deadly

  25. Cocaine • Made from the coca bush • Illegal to use or possess • Powerful stimulant • Effects last from 20 min. to several hours

  26. High is followed by a let down – user will want more • Depression, edginess, weight loss • Physical dependence • Tissues damage to nose • malnutrition

  27. Risk of heart attack • May disturb electrical impulses in the heart • HIV – shared needles • Snorted

  28. Crack • Form of cocaine that is smoked • Converts cocaine into lumps or rocks – freebase – use dangerous solvents; can cause injury or death – explosion or fire

  29. Extremely addictive and dangerous • Effects are felt within seconds – want more when the high starts going away – less than 20 min. • Sore throat, hoarseness, and lung damage • Death by cardiac or respiratory failure

  30. Depressants • Sedatives • Drugs that to slow down the central nervous system • Most commonly used - alcohol

  31. Relax muscles, relieve tension and worry, bring on sleep, slows down heart & breathing, reduces blood pressure • Physical and psychological

  32. Barbiturates • Induce sleep • Mood changes, more sleep than normal, coma • Alcohol + Barbiturates = death

  33. Tranquilizers • Reduce muscular activity, coordination, & attention span • Medical use – relieve anxiety, muscle spasms, sleeplessness, & nervousness

  34. Methaqualone • Reduce anxiety and insomnia • Temporary euphoria – withdrawals are unpleasant • Physical

  35. Physical • Effects – headaches, diarrhea, dizziness, convulsions, and coma • Many die from combining this drug with alcohol

  36. Narcotics

  37. Opiates • Another name for narcotics • Drugs derived from the opium plant that have a sedative effect • Opium poppy flower • Relieves pain

  38. Cause drowsiness • Physiological dependence • Cause stupor, sleep, depress respiration, coma or death • Commonly abused – heroin

  39. Morphine • Reduce severe pain • Terminal cancer patients • Appetite suppressant, cause severe constipation, addiction • Physical

  40. Codeine • Weaker than morphine • Used in cough medication • Physical

  41. Heroin • Made from morphine • No medical use • Depresses central nervous system • Slows breathing and heart rate

  42. Coma and death • Tolerance develops very quickly – physical • Babies can be born addicted • Withdrawal is very painful • HIV • Now 10 x purer

  43. Methadone • Laboratory-made drug narcotic that blocks the withdrawal symptoms of opiate narcotics • Physical • Does not produce euphoria and mind-altering effects

  44. Hallucinogens

  45. Drugs that alter moods, thoughts, and sense perceptions, including vision, hearing, smell, and touch • All hallucinogens are psychological dependence

  46. Phencyclidine • PCP or angle dust • Considered the most dangerous drug • Prepared synthetically • Feels distant and detached

  47. Time pass slowly, body movements slow down, muscle coordination is impaired, and touch and pain are dulled. • Tragic deaths, serious accidents, and terrible acts of violence • Overdose and death by strange and destructive behaviors

  48. Lysergic acid diethylamide • LSD or acid • Most potent of all mood-altering chemicals • Tablet, capsule, and liquid – that is colorless, tasteless, and odorless

  49. Superman effects – false sense of security and power that has resulted in deaths • Panic , anxiety, or accidental suicide

  50. Mescaline • Psychoactive ingredient in peyote cactus • Bad trips or frightening imagines • Stomach cramps and vomiting

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