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Chapter 16

Chapter 16. Medicine and Illegal Drugs. Lesson 1. What are drugs?. Drugs. Is any chemical substances that causes a change in a person’s physical or psychological state. How drugs enter your body. 1-ointments or eardrops applied directly to certain areas

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Chapter 16

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  1. Chapter 16 Medicine and Illegal Drugs

  2. Lesson 1 • What are drugs?

  3. Drugs • Is any chemical substances that causes a change in a person’s physical or psychological state.

  4. How drugs enter your body • 1-ointments or eardrops applied directly to certain areas • 2-transdermal(patches allow absorption into bloodstream) • 3-Smoked or inhaled • 4-Injected • 5-swallowed

  5. Lesson 2 • Using Drugs as Medicine

  6. Medicine • Any drug that is used to cure, prevent, or treat illness or discomfort

  7. Prescription Medicine • Written order from a doctor for a certain medicine or treatment

  8. Over-the-counter • Any medicine that can be bought without a prescription

  9. Drug Interaction • Any effect of a drug that is different from what should be expected if the drug is taken at the same time as another drug

  10. Side effect • Any effect that is caused by a drug and that is different from the drug’s intended effect • Loss of hair • Dizziness, • Exhaustion • Nausea • others

  11. Tolerance • Is the body’s ability to resist the effects of a drug

  12. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) • Government agency that controls the safety of food and drugs in the United States

  13. Drug Approval Process

  14. Lesson 3 • Drug Abuse and Addiction

  15. Drug Addiction • Uncontrollable use of a drug

  16. Dependence • A person needing a drug in order to function properly

  17. Physical Dependence • Body’s need for a drug

  18. Withdrawals • Symptoms • Depression • Nervousness • Sleeplessness • irritability

  19. Problems with addiction • Hurts oneself • Hurts others • Mood swings • Lying to loved ones • Focusing in school • Cost of addiction

  20. Lesson 4 • Stimulants and Depressants

  21. Stimulants • Drug that increases the body’s activity • Increases heart rate • Increases breathing • Increases blood pressure

  22. Examples of stimulants • Mild stimulants • Tea • Coffee • Soft drinks • Chocolate • Hard stimulants • Crack • Cocaine • methamphetamine

  23. Cocaine and Crack • Most widely abused illegal stimulants. Comes from a coca plant grown in South America. • Cocaine is usually inhaled • Crack (rock)is smoked

  24. Physical symptoms of Crack and Cocaine • Increase of heart rate • Increase of blood pressure • Heart attack • Strokes • Brain damage • death

  25. Euphoria • A physical or mental sense of well-being

  26. Methamphetamine • Very powerful synthetic stimulant • Smoked • Injected • Decrease appetite • Increase body temperature • Damage to kidneys • Damage to liver • Damage to brain • Death

  27. Depressants • Decreases body activity • Decrease blood pressure • Drop in heart rate • Drop in breathing

  28. Sedatives • Have a mild relaxation to deep sleep

  29. Tranquilizers • Are mild depressants that are used in small doses to treat anxiety

  30. Barbiturates • Strong depressants that are used to treat sleep disorders and seizures

  31. Hypnotics • Extremely powerful depressants that can cause sleep, loss of muscle control, and loss of memory

  32. Rohypnol • Powerful hypnotic depressant • Used for surgery and to treat sleep disorders • Not used in America but is brought in from other countries

  33. Lesson 5 • Marijuana

  34. Marijuana • Is a dried flower and leaf from the Cannabis plant • Many different names • Pot • Dope • Mary Jane • Green • Bud • reefer

  35. Effects of Marijuana • Some feel a stimulant affect • Some feel a depressant affect • Mild euphoria • Distortion of time and distance • Reduced energy and coordination • Sensitivity to sights and sounds • Increased appetite • Decreased memory • Slower reaction time

  36. THC • tetrahydrocannabinol

  37. Serious effects of marijuana • Thinking and concentration decreased • Difficulty reaching any goals • Decreases energy • Circulatory problems • emphysema

  38. Lesson 6 • Opiates

  39. Opiates • Milk from a opium poppy

  40. Opiates • Extremely addictive sometime after just one use • Often there is a strong tolerance so there is a danger of overdose

  41. Opiate withdrawals • Cramps • Vomiting • Muscle pain • Shaking • Chills • Panic attacks

  42. Medical uses for Opiates • Painkillers • Suppress coughs • Intestinal problems

  43. Heroin • Most powerful addictive opiate that exists • It is made from morphine • Can be smoked, inhaled or injected.

  44. Lesson 7 • Hallucinogens and Inhalants

  45. Hallucinogens • Any drug that causes a person to hear or see things that are not present.

  46. Flashback • Is an event in which a hallucinogen’s effects happen again long after the drug was originally taken • They occur days, weeks or even years. • They last for seconds to hours

  47. Inhalant • Any drug that is absorbed through the lungs • Household cleaners • Spray paint • Glues • Freon • Nitrous oxide (laughing gas

  48. Inhalants produce • Hallucinations • Lack of coordination • Distortion of time and distance • Difficulty speaking or thinking • Brain damage • Sudden death

  49. Designer Drugs • Is a drug that is produced by making a small chemical change to a drug that already exists • Ecstasy • GHB • Ketamine

  50. Ecstasy(MDMA) • Mind-altering drug that was created from the powerful stimulant methamphetamine • XTC • E • X • Adam

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