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Cocaine & Crack
Methamphet- amine "ICE"
Tobacco
E- Cigarettes
Smokeless Products
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What is a street name for cocaine/crack?
Big C, Blow, Coke, Crack Powder, Flake, Lady, Lines, Nose Candy, Snow, Snowbirds, White Crack: Freebase, Rock
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What is Methamphetamine?
Methamphetamine is a white, odorless, bitter-tasting crystalline powder that easily dissolves in water or alcohol and is taken orally, intranasally (snorting the powder), by needle injection, or by smoking.
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What Is Smokeless Tobacco?
Smokeless tobacco, also called spit tobacco, chewing tobacco, chew, chaw, dip, plug, and probably a few other things, comes in two forms: snuff and chewing tobacco
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Why is it hard to quit smoking?
Tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. Like heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person needs to have it just to feel normal.
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How do you use smokeless tobacco?
You don't smoke it. You don't swallow it. All you do is slosh it around your mouth and spit out the brown juices every few seconds.
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How is it used?
Cocaine can be snorted or dissolved in water and injected. Crack is smoked
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How does Meth affect the brain?
Methamphetamine increases the release and blocks the reuptake of the brain chemical (or neurotransmitter) dopamine, leading to high levels of the chemical in the brain—a common mechanism of action for most drugs of abuse.
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Why is it addictive?
Smoking tobacco is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine.
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What are the long-term affects of smoking?
Smoking leads people to develop health problems like heart disease, stroke, emphysema (breakdown of lung tissue), and many types of cancer — including lung, throat, stomach, and bladder cancer. People who smoke also have an increased risk of infections like bronchitis and pneumonia.
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What is snuff?
Snuff is a fine-grain tobacco that often comes in teabag-like pouches that users "pinch" or "dip" between their lower lip and gum.
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What is the reality of cocaine use?
My heart beats irregularly on cocaine. I feel scared - everything seems out of control and no matter how much I have, I always want more, and I don't care about anything else.
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What Other Adverse Effects Does Methamphetamine have on Health?
Taking even small amounts of methamphetamine can result in many of the same physical effects as those of other stimulants, such as cocaine or amphetamines, including increased wakefulness, increased physical activity, decreased appetite, increased respiration, rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, increased blood pressure, and hyperthermia.
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How does smoking tobacco affect your health?
First-time smokers often feel pain or burning in the throat and lungs, and some people feel sick or even throw up the first few times they try tobacco.
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Why don't they have to post health risks on e-cigarettes?
E-cigarettes haven't been evaluated or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Where does it come from?
Smokeless tobacco has been around for a long time. Native people of North and South America chewed tobacco, and snorting and chewing snuff was popular in Europe and Scandinavia
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What is the long-term affect of cocaine?
High doses of cocaine can trigger paranoia. Smoking crack cocaine can produce a particularly aggressive paranoid behavior in users. Cocaine snorting can result in ulceration of the mucous membrane of the nose.
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What Treatment Options Exist?
The most effective treatments for methamphetamine addiction are comprehensive cognitive-behavioral interventions.
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What is second hand smoke?
The smoke that smokers exhale (called mainstream smoke) and the smoke floating from the end of the cigarette, cigar, or pipe (called sidestream smoke).
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What are different forms of smoking?
Hookahs, staples of Middle Eastern café society, are water pipes used to smoke tobacco through a hose with a tapered mouthpiece.
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Who does smokeless tobacco?
As many as 20% of high school boys and 2% of high school girls use smokeless tobacco, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Of the 12 to 14 million American users, one third are under age 21, and more than half of those developed the habit before they were 13.
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What can happen while you're high?
Duration of cocaine's immediate euphoric effects, which include energy, reduced fatigue, and mental clarity, depends on how it is used. The faster the absorption, the more intense the high. However, the faster the absorption, the shorter the high lasts.
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How Widespread Is Methamphetamine Abuse?
Methamphetamine use among teens appears to have dropped significantly in recent years, according to data revealed by the 2009 Monitoring the Future survey.
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How do you quit smoking?
Quitting isn't easy because smoking is highly addictive. But plenty of programs and people can help you make the brave effort to becoming smoke free.
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What are e-cigarettes?
These battery-operated devices use cartridges filled with nicotine, flavorings, and other chemicals and convert them into a vapor that's inhaled by the user.
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What Can Chewing Tobacco Do to Me?
The more immediate effects can disrupt your social life: bad breath and yellowish-brown stains on your teeth. You'll also get mouth sores