PREVENTING DRUG ABUSEWhat about drugs?

Drugs Drugs: Is a chemical substance that is

taken to cause changes in a person’s body or behavior Often gives the feeling of EUPHORIA:

Pleasure

Medicine: a legal drug that helps the body fight injury, illness or disease.

Over the Counter Drugs

Medicine that is sold legally in stores without a doctor’s prescription

Prescription Drugs

A drug that you can only get with a doctor’s prescription and can be purchased from a pharmacy

Illegal Drugs

A chemical substance that people of any age can not make, posesses , buy, or sell

Also known as “street drugs”

Drug Misuse

Improper use of medicines either prescription or over-the-counter drugs Taking more then prescribed Taking drugs with the wrong foods or the

wrong time of day

Drug Abuse

Drug is intentionally used improperly or unsafely Taking to much medicine to get the feeling

of being “high” Any use of illegal drugs

Legal and Illegal drugs

Drug Abuse and the Brain

Psychoactive drugs typically create a pleasurable feeling that the user wants to repeat, this activity takes place along the “REWARD PATHWAY ” of the brain. Brain cells along this pathway release a chemical called DOPAMINE. Dopamine is not necessarily a dangerous chemical but can be in association with drug use.

Dangerous Effects of Dopamine when a person is on drugs

The extra dopamine released during the drug use can cause the user to ignore the harmful effects of the drug and want to continue using it.

Flooding the reward pathway with dopamine may lead to intense cravings for the drug when it’s not available.

After a time, drug abuse can dull the brain’s reactions to natural levels of dopamine. The user no longer feels pleasure from normal activities.

Dangers of drug abuse, misuse, and abuse

ADDICTIONo Physical addiction occurs when the body’s chemistry adjusts its

functioning to the presence of the drug. The addicted person requires higher and higher does of the drug to ward off symptoms of withdrawal

o Psychological addiction occurs when a strong mental craving for a drug sets in. The craving may last for years after the drug is gone. The only sure way to escape drug addiction is never to experiment with drugs that produce it.

 WITHDRAWLo The physical symptoms of withdrawal that occur when a drug to which

a person is addicted is cleared from the body tissues.o Withdrawal Symptoms include but are not limited to: nausea,

vomiting, headaches, dizziness, fever, digestion problems, paranoia or panic, tremors, seizures or death.

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DEPRESSANTS: SLOWS BRAIN AND BODY FUNCTIONS

BARBITUATESSedative-hypnotics

CNS DEPRESSANTS

OPIATESSTREET NAMES: barbs, reds, red birds, phennies, tooies, yellows, yellow jackets

STREET NAMES:STREET NAMES :big O, black stuff, block, gum, hop

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SIDE EFFECTSUnwanted physical

or mental effect caused by a drug

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STIMULANTS: SPEEDS UP ACTIVITY OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (INCREASES HEART RATE, BLOOD PRESSURE, AND ALERTNESS)

USED TO TREAT SLEEPING DISORDRERS AND BEHAVIOR DISORDERS SUCH AS ADHD.

AMPHETAMINESMETHAMPHETAMI

NECOCAINE

STREET NAMES: bennies, black beauties, crosses, hearts, LA turnaround, speed, truck drivers, uppers

STREET NAMES: meth, ice, crank, chalk, crystal, fire, glass, go fast, speed

STREET NAMES: blow, bump, C, candy, Charlie, coke, crack, flake, rock, snow, toot

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HALLUCINOGENS: DISTORTS PERCEPTION, THOUGHT AND MOODOverload the brain with sensory information, causing a distorted sense of reality – illegal and no medial use!

LSD PSILOCYBIN PCPMade from the psychoactive compounds contained in the seed pods of the poppy plant –

some can be made in labs

STREET NAMES: acid, blotter, cubes, microdot yellow sunshine, blue heave

STREET NAMES: Magic mushrooms, purple passion, shrooms, little smoke

STREET NAMES: angel dust, boat, hog, love boat, peace pill

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MARIJUANA: DRUG MADE FROM THE LEAVES, STEMS AND FLOWERING TOPS OF THE HEMP PLANT

Main ingredient, THC, changes the way information reaches and is acted upon in the brain.

STREET NAMES:Blunt, dope, ganja, grass, herb, joint, bud, Mary Jane, pot, reefer, green, trees, smoke, sinsemilla, skunk, weed

IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT MARIJUANA %

SIDE EFFECTS * FREQUENT USE CAN... @

CLUB DRUGS: DRUGS POPULAR AT DANCE CLUBS/RAVES, WITH UNPREDICTABLE

STRENGTHS AND QUALITY

ECTASY ROHYPNOL GHBSTREET NAMES: * X, E, or XTC* Adam* Beans* Candy* Dancing Shoes* Disco iscuits* Doves* E-bomb* Egg Rolls* Happy Pill* Love Drug* Malcolm (or Malcolm X) Molly* Scooby Snacks* Smartees* Sweets* Skittles* Thizz*

STREET NAMES: Roofies, Rophies, Roche, Forget-me Pill, Circles, Mexican Valium, Rib, Roach-2, Roopies, Rope, Ropies, Ruffies, and Roaches

STREET NAMES:  G, Georgia home boy, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, soap, scoop, goop, liquid X

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INHALANTS: A BREATHABLE CHEMICAL VAPOR THAT PRODUCES MIND ALTERING EFFECTS.

STREET NAMES: laughing gas, poppers, snappers, whippets

MEDICAL USE 8 COMMONLY ABUSED

INHALANTS 4 DANGERS OF INHALANT ABUSE 7

STEROIDS: SYNTHETIC DRUGS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THE HORMONE TESTOSTERONESTREET NAMES: Anadrol, Oxandrin, Durabolin, Depo-Testosterone, Equipoise: roids, juice, gym candy, pumpers

LEGAL USE OF THE DRUG

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MALES AND FEMALES (334) 2

EFFECTS IN MALES

(334) 12 EFFECTS IN FEMALES

(334) 66OTHER HEALTH

RISKS ASSOCAITED

WITH STEROID USE(334)

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Peers and Drugs

Answer the questions at the bottom of page 2 in the packet

Commonly abused drugs Complete pages 3 – 7 in the packet using your book

pages 440-447 DUE TOMORROW

Hands on activity - page 8 in packet Peer pressure

Test tomorrow Can use packet

Packet Due

Hands on Activity

1. Form a group with 4 other students2. You will receive a role-playing card from

your teacher3. Do not discuss your role with other group

members4. Imagine that you are at the party with

your friends. Spend 5 minutes about your role and how you will act

5. At my signal begin acting out your role with the other members of your group