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DRUGS DEFINED
A DRUG IS:
• “… ANY CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE WHICH, WHEN TAKEN INTO THE BODY ALTERS ITS FUNCTION PHYSICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY”
• WHO (1989)
WHY DO PEOPLE USE DRUGS?
• THIS CAN BE PUT DOWN TO MANY REASONS INCLUDING
• ACCESSIBILITY AND AVAILABILITY
• GROWING ACCEPTANCE OF THEIR USE
• GREATER AFFORDABILITY
• BOREDOM AND CURIOSITY
• CELEBRATIONS
• PEER PRESSURE
WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN PEOPLE TAKE DRUGS
CATEGORIES OF DRUGS
• DRUGS CAN BE CLASSIFIED INTO 3 DIFFERENT CATEGORIES:
1.DEPRESSANTS
2.STIMULANTS
3.HALLUCINOGENS
1.DEPRESSANTS• DEPRESSANTS SLOW DOWN THE BRAIN AND CENTRAL
NERVOUS SYSTEM CAUSING THE BODY’S FUNCTIONS TO BE SLOWER.
• E.G. ALCOHOL, MORPHINE, HEROIN, CANNABIS, GHB.
2.STIMULANTS
•HEIGHTEN SENSES AND SPEED UP THE BRAIN BY INCREASING THE ACTIVITY OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.
•E.G. AMPHETAMINES, CAFFEINE, AMPHETAMINES, SPEED, COCAINE AND ECSTASY.
3.HALLUCINOGENS.
• THESE ARE MIND ALTERING DRUGS THAT CHANGE THE PERCEPTION OF WHAT IS REAL AND WHAT IS NOT. THEY CAN STIMULATE OR DEPRESS THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.
• E.G. CANNABIS, ECSTASY, LSD, MAGIC MUSHROOMS,
ALCOHOL
• ALCOHOL GOES DIRECTLY FROM YOUR DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
INTO YOUR BLOOD AND WITHIN MINUTES SPREADS TO
ENTIRE BODY, INCLUDING YOUR BRAIN
• IT SPREADS EVENLY THROUGHOUT BODY EXCEPT FOR THE
BRAIN WHICH GETS THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION BECAUSE
IT GETS MORE BLOOD THAN ANY OTHER PART OF BODY
• MORE BLOOD EQUALS MORE ALCOHOL
• INTOXICATION (DRUNKENNESS) STARTS IN THE BRAIN
HOW ALCOHOL TRAVELS AROUND THE BODY
1. MOUTH
2. STOMACH
3. SMALL INTESTINE
4. BLOODSTREAM
5. LIVER
6. BRAIN
NICOTINE
• IS ADDICTIVE- MORE THAN HEROIN OR COCAINE
• MAKES YOUR CLOTHES, HAIR AND BREATH SMELL
• TURNS YOUR TEETH AND FINGERS YELLOW
• INCREASES THE RISK OF STROKE AND HEART ATTACK
• INCREASES THE RISK OF DEVELOPING DIABETES
• IS THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF LUNG, THROAT AND MOUTH CANCER
CIGARETTES
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