Stimulants

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Stimulants

• Drugs Which Cause the Body Systems to Speed up.

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Common Examples of Stimulants

• Methamphetamine
• Caffeine
• Nicotine
• Ritalin
• Crack / Cocaine

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Slang Names

• Speed
• Uppers
• Crank
• Meth
• Black beauties
• Vivran

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How stimulants enter the body

• Swallowed Pills
• Snorted Powder
• Injected Needles

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Physical Mental Effects

• Increased heart rate
• Increased breathing
• Dilated pupils
• Decreased appetite
• Dizziness, sweating
• Headaches, blurred vision
• Insomnia, moodiness
• Irregular heart beat
• Tremors
• Heart failure

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Meths effect on brain function
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Effect of Meth on appearance
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Caffeine Pills

• Raised blood pressure
• Increased heart rate
• Arrhythmias
• Dehydration
• Anxiety
• Insomnia
• Headaches
• Heartburn
• Osteoporosis
• Birth defects
• Digestive ulcers
• Miscarriage infertility,

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Depressants

• Drugs That Slow Down the Central Nervous System
  Along With All Other Body Systems.

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Common Examples of Depressants

• Alcohol
• Beer
• Wine
• Liquor
• Anti Depressants/Anxiety
• Valium
• Xanax
• Methaqualone
• Roofies
• GHB

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Street Names of Depressants

• Yellow jackets
• Qs
• Booze
• Downers
• Barbs
• Ludes

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Short and Long Term Physical and Mental Effects

• Short term
• Dehydrating effect
• Decrease in the time it takes to fall asleep
• Loss of muscular coordination
• Slowed reaction time
• Slurred speech
• Reduction in some social inhibitions
• Exaggerates current emotional state

• Long term
• Addiction
• Permanent damage to vital organs such as the
  brain and liver
• Mothers who drink alcohol during pregnancy may
  give birth to infants with fetal alcohol syndrome
  
• Memory loss
• Confusion

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Effects Continued

• Small doses calmness, relaxed muscles
• Larger doses slurred speech, staggering,
  impaired judgment, impaired coordination
• VERY LARGE DOSES respiratory depression, cardiac
  depression, coma, death

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Hallucinogens

• Drugs That Distort the Senses and Cause
  Hallucinations

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Common Types of Hallucinogens

• Lysergic acid Diethylamide (LSD)
• Peyote
• MDMA (Ecstasy)
• Shrooms

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Forms It Comes in

• Liquid
• Capsules
• Powder
• Blotter paper
• Thin gelatin squares
• Mushrooms

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Other Hallucinogens
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Effects on the Body The effects of hallucinogens
can last several hours

• Blurred Vision
• Euphoria
• Hallucinations and distorted sensory processing,
  including visual, auditory, body, time and space
  perception
• disorganized thoughts, confusion and difficulty
  concentrating, thinking or maintaining attention
• Anxiety, agitation, paranoia and feelings of
  panic
• Dizziness
• Impaired co-ordination
• Increased heart rate, breathing and blood
  pressure
• Nausea and vomiting
• Increased body temperature and sweating, which
  may alternate with chills and shivering
• Numbness

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Bad Trips

• Sometimes a person may experience the adverse and
  negative effects of hallucinogens and have what
  is called a bad trip.
• They may experience strong feelings of anxiety,
  paranoia, panic or fear. The hallucinations can
  be unpleasant, such as feeling like insects are
  crawling on the skin, or they can be so intense
  that the person feels they are losing control.
• Feelings of panic, paranoia and fear can lead to
  risky behavior that can cause injury, such as
  running across a busy street or jumping out of a
  window.
• The reasons for bad trips are not known.
  Usually, the negative feelings disappear when the
  drug wears off. However, there have been reports
  of people experiencing hallucinations, bizarre
  behavior and paranoia for several days after
  taking the drug. Occasionally, these effects can
  last weeks or even months.

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Long-term Effects

• The most consistent long-term effect of
  hallucinogen use is the flashback. Days, weeks or
  even years later, some people re-experience the
  effects of the drug. The person may see intense
  colors and experience hallucinations. Flashbacks
  can be triggered by the use of other drugs, or by
  stress, fatigue or physical exercise.
• Long-term, frequent use of some hallucinogens may
  impair aspects of memory and selected cognitive
  functions
• Deaths exclusively from acute overdose of LSD,
  magic mushrooms and mescaline are extremely rare.
  Deaths generally occur due to suicide, accidents
  and dangerous behavior, or due to the person
  inadvertently eating poisonous plant material.
• A severe overdose of PCP and ketamine can result
  in respiratory depression, coma, convulsions,
  seizures and death due to respiratory arrest.

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Narcotics

• Agents That Numb or Deaden, Causing Loss of
  Feeling or Paralysis

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Common Types of Narcotics

• Heroin
• Vicodin
• Oxycontin
• Morphine
• Opium
• Percocet
• Percodan

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Slang Names

• Smack
• Junk
• Black tar
• Morph
• Perkies

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Effects on the Body

• Euphoria.
• Drowsiness.
• Apathy.
• Nausea and vomiting.
• Slurred speech.
• Constricted pupils.
• Decreased physical activity.
• Convulsions.
• Respiratory depression.
• Greater susceptibility to infection.
• Increased risk of hepatitis or AIDS from infected
  needles.
• Coma.
• Death.

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Medical Uses

• Pain relief
• Cough suppressant
• Heroin is illegal in the U.S. and is not
  prescribed by doctors anymore.

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Marijuana

• The Most Often Used Illegal Drug in the US which
  causes differing effects in people.

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Marijuana Street Names

• Pot
• Grass
• Weed
• Reefer
• Dope
• Mary Jane
• Herb
• Joint
• Roach
• Ganga

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How its used

• Most users roll loose marijuana into a cigarette
  called a "joint". It can be smoked in a water
  pipe, called a "bong", or mixed into food or
  brewed as tea. It has also appeared in cigars
  called "blunts".

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Short Term EffectsThese Effects Are Even Greater
When Mixed With Other Drugs or Alcohol

• Problems with memory and learning
• Distorted perception (sights, sounds, time,
  touch)
• Trouble with thinking and problem solving
• Loss of motor coordination
• Increased heart rate, and anxiety

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Medical Uses

• Relief from side effects of cancer chemotherapy
• Relief from side effects of AIDS therapy
• Relief from symptoms of glaucoma

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Anabolic steroids

• Synthetic derivatives of the male hormone
  testosterone. The full name is androgenic
  anabolic steroids and they promote growth of the
  skeletal structure and increase lean body mass.

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Street Names

• Arnolds
• Asteroids,
• Ball Shrinkers
• Gym candy
• Iron brew
• Juice
• Liquid gold
• Pump-up pills
• Roids
• Stacking

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Physical and Emotional Effects

• Increase muscle mass
• Jaundice
• Purple or red spots on body
• Swelling of feet and legs
• Unpleasant breath
• Depression
• Increased risk of heart attack, stroke, liver
  cancer
• Acne on face and body
• Males sterility, withered testicles, impotence
• Females irreversible masculine traits, breast
  reduction, sterility

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Inhalants

• Breathable Chemical Vapors That Produce
  Psychoactive (Mind-altering) Effects.

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Examples of Inhalants

• Industrial or household solvents or
  solvent-containing products, including paint
  thinners or removers, degreasers, dry-cleaning
  fluids, gasoline, and glue
• Art or office supply solvents, including
  correction fluids, felt-tip-marker fluid, and
  electronic contact cleaners

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Examples Continued

• Household aerosol propellants and associated
  solvents in items such as spray paints, hair or
  deodorant sprays, fabric protector sprays,
  aerosol computer cleaning products, and vegetable
  oil sprays
• Gases used in household or commercial products,
  including butane lighters and propane tanks,
  whipping cream aerosols or dispensers (whippets),
  and refrigerant gases
• Medical anesthetic gases, such as ether,
  chloroform, halothane, and nitrous oxide
  ("laughing gas")

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Slang Names

• Laughing gas
• Whippets
• Poppers
• Snappers
• Rush
• Locker room
• Bullet
• Climax
• Ames

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Effects

• lost sense of smell nausea and nosebleeds
• liver, lung, and kidney problems
• muscle wasting and reduced muscle tone and
  strength.
• Inhalant users can die by suffocation, choking on
  their vomit, or having a heart attack.
• Inhalants can kill you the very first time you
  use them.