gateway
What are gateway drugs
A drug that leads to more hardcore and dangerous drugs
What are some forms of tobacco?
Cigarettes, chewing tobacco, vape, snuff
What is oxy Contin?
A prescribed pain medication
What are hallucinogens?
Dugs that make you see, hear and feel things that are not there
What forms does cocaine and crack come in?
Powder (cocaine) and crystal (crack)
What drugs can be found around your home?
Inhalants, prescription med, alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana
When was the Young Marines identified as the focal organization for the Marine Corps’ Youth Drug demand reduction effort?
1993
How can Oxy Contin effect your body negatively?
A large dosage can cause severe respiratory depression that can lead to death. Withdrawal symptoms include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and involuntary leg movements.
What are some other names for Hallucinogens?
Acid, cid, blotter, illusion, lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, magic mushrooms, mushrooms, shrooms, PCP or Angel Dust.
How does cocaine effect your body?
People who use it often don’t eat or sleep regularly, increased heart rate, muscle spasms, convulsions. Causes people to lose interest in other areas of their life. CAN KILL YOU!!! Heart attacks, seizures strokes and raspatory failures.
What are the 5 gateway drugs?
Marijuana, Alcohol, Nicotine, prescription meds, inhalants
What are some effects alcohol has on your brain?
Loss of coordination, poor judgment, slowed reflexes, distorted vision, memory lapses, and even blackouts.
What are some predatory drugs? (also know as club drugs)
Ecstasy, GHB, Ketamine, Rohypnol
How do Hallucinogens affect your brain?
Perception of time, reality and the environment around you. They also effect how you move, react to situations, think, hear and SEE. (maybe hearing voices, seeing things that aren’t there, or feeling things that are not there.)
How does cocaine effect your emotions?
Feelings of paranoia, anger, hostility and anxiety…. Even when not high.
What are some street names for Marijuana
Weed, pot, grass, reefer, Ganja, Mary jane, blunt, joint, roach or nail
What are some effects alcohol has on your body?
Depresses your central nervous system. Can damage every single organ in your body, absorbs directly into your blood stream and can increase your risk of life-threatening diseases, including cancer. Can kill you. Can lead to comas. Effects self-control.
What are some of the physical effects of Ecstasy?
Interfere with the body’s ability to regulate temperature, liver failure, kidney failure and death. Increased blood pressure and heart rate, muscle tension, nausea, blurred vision, faintness and chills or sweating.
How do Hallucinogens affect your body?
increase in heart rate and blood pressure. can put you in a coma. also cause heart and lung failure. They may cause you to feel confused, suspicious, and disoriented. Use of PCP may interfere with hormones related to normal growth as well as with the learning process. Mix up your speech and have little self-control. Lose control of your muscles, can also become aggressive or violent.
How do inhalants effect your body?
They starve the body of oxygen and force the heart to beat irregularly and more rapidly. Can lose sense of smell, nausea and nosebleeds. Can also develop liver, lung and kidney issues. Chronic use can lead to muscle wasting and reduced muscled tone and strength. SUDDEN DEATH!!!!! Usually by suffocation, choking on their vomit or a heart attack.
What are some effects marijuana has on your body?
Effect sense of time and your coordination. Your memory, can limit your body’s ability to fight infection, long term use can increase risk of developing certain mental illnesses.
How does tobacco effect your overall health?
Lung, mouth, throat, bladder, pancreas and kidney cancer. Effects your body’s development. Can cause many diseases, chronic bronchitis, heart disease and strokes. ADDICTIVE, can kill you.
How do Methamphetamines affect your body and mind?
anxiety, euphoria, and depression. Long-term effects can include chronic fatigue, paranoid or delusional thinking, and permanent psychological damage. these drugs push the body faster and further than it’s meant to go. It increases the heart rate, blood pressure, and risk of stroke. can cause stroke or cardiac arrest when overused or used by people with sensitivity to them. can kill you. An overdose of meth can result in heart failure. Long-term physical effects such as liver, kidney, and lung damage may also kill you
What are some long term effects of heroin
insomnia, collapsed veins for people who inject the drug, damaged tissue inside the nose for people who sniff or snort it, infection of the heart lining and valves, constipation and stomach cramping, liver and kidney disease, lung complications, including pneumonia, mental disorders such as depression and antisocial personality disorder
What immediate reaction takes place when you take cocaine?
Short- livid high followed by opposite, intense feelings of depression, edginess and a craving of the drug.