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How Drugs Enter the Body

How Drugs Enter the Body. RND Substance Abuse. What are ways that you can get drugs into your body?. Ingested-orally i.e. pills Drug passes through the walls of the stomach, into the small intestine and then absorbed into the bloodstream. Inhalation.

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How Drugs Enter the Body

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  1. How Drugs Enter the Body RND Substance Abuse

  2. What are ways that you can get drugs into your body? • Ingested-orally • i.e. pills • Drug passes through the walls of the stomach, into the small intestine and then absorbed into the bloodstream

  3. Inhalation • Occurs when you breathe a substance into the lungs. Smoking is one way but there are many others; household items can be bad for your lungs too • The lungs consist of branching airways (called bronchi) with clusters of tiny air sacs (called alveoli) at the ends of the airways. The alveoli absorb oxygen and other chemicals into the bloodstream.

  4. Smoked • is a practice in which a substance is burned and the smoke is inhaled.

  5. Snorted • Drug enters the bloodstream via blood vessels in the nasal passages

  6. Injected • Skin Popping: drug is injected under the skin • Intramuscular injection: drug injected deep into the muscle • Mainlining: drug is injected directly into a vein

  7. Absorbed • Skin absorption is a route by which substances can enter the body through the skin.

  8. Suppositried • Drug inserted through the anus, such as a capsule,etc

  9. Tolerance • Suppose you live by a train track and the train passes every two hours. You might hear that train for a week or two, then you become numb to its noise. • Drugs act the same way, you will get used to the same thing over and over, and need more (or different) to feel the affect.

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