Post on 16-Jul-2015
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• Alcohol consumption can damage the brain and most body
organs, including the heart, liver, and pancreas.
Prohibition
In 1919 the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States banned the sale or manufacture of alcohol. This period in US history was known as Prohibition;it ended in 1933. Here, government agents
dump illegally made alcohol that they have confiscated.
Amphetamines/
Methamphetamine
•Amphetamines, including methamphetamine, are
powerful stimulants that can produce feelings of
euphoria and alertness.
Bath Salts
•“Bath salts” refers to an emerging family of
drugs containing one or more synthetic
chemicals related to cathinone, an
amphetamine-like stimulant found naturally in
the khat plant.
• Cocaine is a short-
acting stimulant,
which can lead
users to “binge”—
take the drug
many times in a
single session.
Cocaine has long been known as a drug of
abuse, but it came into particular prominence
in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Cocaine
hydrochloride, a water-soluble salt, is a
dry, white powder that is usually inhaled
through a thin tube inserted into the
nostril. More rarely, cocaine is injected
into a vein. The drug may also be smoked in a
purified form through a water pipe
(“freebasing”) or in a concentrated form
(“crack”) shaped into pellets and placed in
special smoking gear.
• The effects
of hallucinogens—
perception-altering
drugs—are highly
variable and
unreliable, producing
different effects in
different people at
different times.
Inhalants
• Inhalants are volatile
substances found in many
household products (such as
oven cleaners, gasoline, spray
paints, and other aerosols) that
induce mind-altering effects.
•Ketamine, Rohypnol®, and GHB have come to
be known as “date rape” drugs because they
can cause someone to lose their memory of
an assault.