Teen Drug Use

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Teen Drug Use

• 8th Grade Health
• Mrs. Bauder

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What are reasons teens give for using drugs?
R x
Fun
Rebellion
Curiosity
Availability
Conformity
Boredom
Escape
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Drugs Most Commonly Used By Teens

• Alcohol
• Tobacco
• Marijuana
• Prescription Drugs
• Inhalants
• Club Drugs
• Steroids Heroin

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Marijuana
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Marijuana (Canabis)

• aka Pot
• Most likely the first illicit drug that young
  people will use
• Average age of first use is about 14 years
• THC is the main active ingredient
• Medical in some states

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How Does Marijuana Effect the Body?

• Impairs -
• memory
• event recall
• judgment
• cognitive functions
• coordination and balance
• Increased heart rate
• Dry mouth
• Occasional anxiety, fear or panic

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How marijuana affects a person depends on

• Whether it is smoked or ingested
• Dosage
• THC content
• Time between puffs
• Length of time in ones lungs
• Previous experience (tolerance)

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Club Drugs
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Club Drugs - What are they?

• Typically used by young adults at bars, clubs,
  concerts, and parties.
• The most common club drugs include Ecstasy
  (MDMA), GHB, Rohypnol, and Ketamine

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Intoxicating Effects of Club Drugs

• Ecstasy
• increase awareness of senses, mild
  hallucinations, increased energy, loss of
  judgment
• GBH
• relaxation, nausea, loss of inhibitions, euphoria
• Ketamine and PCP
• confusion, distortions of reality, numbness

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Health Consequences of Club Drugs

• Ecstasy
• impaired learning and memory, hyperthermia, rapid
  heartbeat, high blood pressure, heart attack,
  death
• GBH
• dangerously slowed breathing, seizures, coma
• Ketamine and PCP
• loss of memory, loss of muscle control,
  dangerously slowed breathing

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Heroin
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Heroin What is it?

• Opiate derived from poppy plant
• Used as a pain reliever
• Aka smack
• Can be injected, smoked or snorted

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Heroin How does it affect the body?

• HIGHLY ADDICTIVE
• Dulls senses
• Impairs judgment
• Sleepy
• Dramatically slows thinking process
• Produces many side effects

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Heroin Health Consequences

• HIGHLY ADDICTIVE
• Slows down CNS
• Injection contract blood borne diseases
• Coma
• Overdose
• Death

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Inhalants - What are they?

• Inhalants are legal, everyday products that when
  inhaled can produce mind-altering effects or a
  euphoric state.
• nail polish remover
• glue
• gasoline
• household cleaners
• nitrous oxide ("laughing gas," which can be found
  in whipped cream dispensers and is often inhaled
  via a balloon)

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Inhalant Abuse

• National surveys report that more than 22.9
  million Americans have abused inhalants at least
  once in their lives.
• Inhalants are abused more often by younger
  children than older children.
• Why?

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Long Term Effects of Inhalants

• Regular abuse of inhalants can result in serious
  harm to vital organs. Can cause
• brain damage
• spinal cord damage
• heart damage
• kidney damage
• liver failure
• muscle weakness

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Steroids

• Anabolic steroids
• artificial forms of the male hormone testosterone
• Ergogenic drugs
• substance that enhances athletic performance
• Two forms
• Injectable solutions
• Pills
• Motivator - body image concerns

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Effects of Steroids
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Any Questions????