Drugs and Alcohol

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Drugs and Alcohol

• An Awareness Program
• Developed by Officer Mark Childers MPO Gary
  Zornes

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Course Objective

• Familiarize students with risks and consequences
  associated with use of drugs and alcohol

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Drugs
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• What is the most common and easiest drug for kids
  to get?

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Tobacco
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Why do kids smoke cigarettes or chew?
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Chemicals found in cigarettes

• There are about 4000 chemicals in
  cigarettes/smoke which include some of the
  following
• Nicotine Addictive
• Ammonia Used in fertilizer
• Formaldehyde Used in embalming
• Hydrogen Cyanide Used on death row gas chambers

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What happens to your body?

• Stimulant
• Medical hazards with smoking
• Medical/dental hazards of chew

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Financial Burden of Smoking

• 7.50 per pack
• Tossing a lit cigarette
• 1,025 fine for throwing a cigarette out of a
  moving vehicle.
• Possession of tobacco under 18
• 103 fine for possession of tobacco under 18

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Caught at school

• Suspended for 20 school days which can be reduced
  to 10 days if you attend a drug/alcohol assessment

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What can use of tobacco lead to?

• Gateway drug to
• Marijuana
• Affects on Mind/Body
• Depressant/Hallucinogen
• THC Levels

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Caught at school

• Possession- Suspended for 20 school days which
  can be reduced to 10 days if you attend a
  drug/alcohol assessment
• Dealing Suspended for 90 school days which can
  not be reduced

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Legal Consequences

• Marijuana Misdemeanor
• Jail/ Up to 90 days
• Fine/ Up to 1,000
• No drivers license until 21

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Is Marijuana just a plant?

• Things to think about.

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Legal Consequences

• Any other drug other than Marijuana Felony
• Jail/ Up to 5 years
• Fine/ Up to 10,000
• License/ No license until 21

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Caught at school

• Possession- Suspended for 20 school days which
  can be reduced to 10 days if you attend a
  drug/alcohol assessment
• Dealing Suspended for 90 school days which can
  not be reduced

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Cocaine

• Powder or Crack
• Stimulant

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Hallucinogens

• LSD/Acid
• PCP/Angel Dust
• Psilocybin Mushrooms
• Ecstacy

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Prescription Medication

• Who can take it?
• Dangers
• Ridilin

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Inhalants

• Huffing
• Canned air, model glue, butane
• Dangers

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Meth

• Methamphetamine (Meth) Is A Powerfully Addictive
  Stimulant That Has A High Potential For Abuse And
  Dramatically Affects The Central Nervous System.

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Heroin

• Many forms
• Very addictive

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Shark Bite Lady

• Very gross pictures

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Alcohol
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Commonly Used by teens

• Why?
• Easy to get
• A lot of kids die every year from alcohol related
  incidents

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Dangers of Alcohol Use

• Lack of enzymes to break it down
• Root word of intoxication is toxic
• Alcohol Poisoning

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Alcohol Poisoning
Death
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Puke Line
.08
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More Dangers of Alcohol Use

• Loss of Judgment
• Something else in your drink

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Marijuana vs. Alcohol

• Marijuana retards the puke trigger
• Alcohol activates the trigger

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Caught at school

• Suspended for 20 school days which can be reduced
  to 10 days if you attend a drug/alcohol assessment

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Legal Consequences

• M.I.P Gross Misdemeanor
• Minor exhibiting effects of alcohol in a public
  place or vehicle in a public place
• Jail / Up to 1 year
• Fine/ Up to 5,000
• No drivers license until 18

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What can happen?
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Friends that drink or use drugs

• Want you to do it to so they dont feel as bad
• Not really a friend at all
• If they are under the influence of anything dont
  get in a vehicle with them

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Dangers with driving

• Reaction times greatly reduced
• Inability to make good decisions
• Adult blood/alcohol level - lt.08
• Juvenile blood/alcohol level - lt.02
• If you drink.DONT DRIVE!