What Are Stimulants
These are drugs that make your body and brain speed up.
What are stimulants?
This can happen when stimulants make your heart work so hard that it can’t keep up, even in someone who is young.
What is a heart attack?
Using stimulants for a long time can change how your brain feels pleasure, making it hard to feel happy without the drug.
What is addiction?
Sharing needles while using stimulants can spread serious infections like HIV and this liver disease.
What is hepatitis?
Many people think stimulants make them smarter, but they really only increase energy and focus for a short time without improving this.
What is intelligence?
This is a legal stimulant many people drink in coffee or soda
What is caffeine?
Stimulants can cause blood vessels in the brain to tighten or burst, leading to this sudden, life-threatening emergency.
What is a stroke?
After a stimulant binge, someone may feel extremely tired, depressed, and irritable for days. This is known as what?
What is a crash?
Using a stimulant without a prescription or in a way it wasn’t prescribed is called this.
What is misuse?
Some believe that using stimulants only on weekends is safe, but repeated use can still change the brain’s reward system and lead to this.
What is dependence or addiction?
This illegal stimulant is often a white powder and can make people feel very energetic.
What is cocaine?
When someone uses a lot of meth or cocaine, their body temperature can rise dangerously high, damaging organs and becoming deadly.
What is heat stroke?
Long-term stimulant use can cause someone to see or hear things that are not really there.
What are hallucinations?
When someone needs more and more of a drug to feel the same effect, this is happening.
What is tolerance?
People sometimes think mixing stimulants with alcohol “balances things out,” but it actually increases the risk of this dangerous outcome.
What is heart damage?
This stimulant can be prescribed by a doctor for ADHD.
What is Adderall (or Ritalin
Long-term stimulant use can weaken this organ from constantly making it beat too fast and too hard.
What is the heart?
After long-term stimulant use, some people become extremely suspicious and believe others are out to harm them, even when it isn’t true.
What is paranoia?
How does stimulant use affect sleep patterns?
Stimulants can lead to insomnia and fatigue during periods of non-use.
Many people believe they can stop using stimulants anytime they want, but once the brain’s reward system is changed, quitting often requires this.
What is treatment?
What are the different ways people can take stimulant drugs, and which ways can make them more dangerous?
Snorting or injecting stimulants produces more immediate and intense effects compared to oral consumption.
Mixing stimulants with alcohol can put extreme stress on the body and increase the risk of this deadly outcome.
What is overdose?
Over time, stimulant use can make someone feel flat, numb, or unable to enjoy normal things like family, hobbies, or food.
What is depression?
Mixing stimulants with alcohol creates a toxic chemical in the body that puts extra strain on the heart and increases the risk of sudden death.
What is cocaethylene or dangerous drug interaction?
Some people believe if they don’t look sick, they aren’t addicted — but addiction affects this organ even when it isn’t visible on the outside.
What is the brain?