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DRUG AWARENESS

ISB Middle School

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What Are Drugs?

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What are drugs?

A drug is something that affects your body. Drugs mustbe able to pass through the body and into the brain;interferes with brains neurotransmitters

Not all drugs are illegal.

Drugs like cannabis, ecstasy and cocaine are illegal.Other drugs which are against the law include speed,heroin, LSD and magic mushrooms.

Many are legal like alcohol, headache tablets,cigarettes and glue (inhalents).

In certain countries legal drugs can only be given outby doctors. Usually doctors give you a prescription totake to the pharmacy.

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Myth Busting

Drug addiction is voluntary

Drugs that are legal are helpful, illegal drugs areharmful

Marijuana is not bad for you Combining drugs is not harmful

Addicts can not recover

Once detoxification ends, if the addict does not

return to drugs, changes in the pathways of thebrain will return to their normal state

Driving is not affected by the influence of drugs

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Types of Drugs

3 Main Types:1. Depressants slow down, or depress, the functions of the central

nervous system . In moderate doses, depressants can make you feelrelaxed. In larger doses, depressants can cause unconsciousness byreducing breathing and heart rate. A person's speech may becomeslurred and their movements sluggish and uncoordinated.

These can include:

alcohol;

opiates and opioids (heroin) , morphine, codeine, methadone andbuprenorphine;

cannabis or marijuana; minor tranquillizers diazepam such as Valium, oxazepam (Serepax);

some solvents and inhalants such as vapors from petrol, glue, chromepaint and lighter fluid.

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Cannibas

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Cannibas can cause health problems both physical and mental

Tetrahydrocannibinal (THC) is its main active ingredient

Some use cannibas for medical purposes; e.g. multiple sclerosis or glaucoma

Use at a young age is linked to increased mental health problems such asschizophrenia; psychiatric hospitalization may be necessary if heavily used

Lowers motivation and lose interest in things

Co-ordination and reactions slow down

Effects asthma

Can increase the heart rate and cause someone to have high blood pressure

Might have hallucinations A small number of people that use cannabis go on to other drugs

Use dates back to the Chinese in 2,700 b.c.

Can be addictive; long term users become dependant

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Types of Drugs

2. Stimulants speed up or stimulate the central nervous systemand can make the users feel more awake, alert or confident.Stimulants increase heart rate, body temperature and bloodpressure. Other physical effects include reduced appetite,dilated pupils, talkativeness, agitation and sleep disturbance.

Types Include:

Caffeine

Nicotine in tobacco is a stimulant, despite smokers using it torelax

Ephedrine, used in medicines for bronchitis, hay fever, asthma Amphetamines and methamphetamines, also known as 'speed',

'ice' and 'crystal meth'

Cocaine, also known as 'coke' and 'snow';

slimming tablets: e.g. Duromine and Tenuate;

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Effects of Excessive Caffeine

Stimulates your heart, respiratory system, and central nervous system.

Makes your blood more `sludgy' by raising the level of fatty acids in theblood and raises blood pressure

Causes your stomach to produce more acid, irritates the stomach lining

Stimulates the cortex of your brain heightening the intensity of mental

activity; temporary feeling of alertness. Those with high levels of anxiety

heightened alertness can produce unpleasant effects. Affects the length/quality of sleep. Heavy caffeine users suffer from

sleep-deprivation because their nervous system is too stimulated to

allow them deep, restful or prolonged sleep.

Caffeine addiction which involves nervousness, irritability, agitation,

headaches or ringing in the ears. Causes blood sugar, or blood glucose, to be released from storage

through the effects of the adrenal hormones. Requires your pancreas to

over-work.

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Where do we get our caffeine?

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Some Effects of Smoking One in twolifetime smokers will diefrom their habit. Halfof these deaths will

occur in middle age. Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.

The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoketemporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heartandblood vessels. This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow,cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbsamputated.

Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causescancer. A 20-a-day smokerbreathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.

Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeperpuffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeperinto their lungs.

Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making yourwhole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swellupand let less air into your lungs.

Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smokeare ten timesmore likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.

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What can meth do to you??

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Types of Drugs

3. Hallucinogenicdrugs distort the user's perceptions of reality. Themain physical effects are dilation of pupils, loss of appetite,increased activity, talking or laughing, jaw clenching, sweating andsometimes stomach cramps or nausea. Drug effects can include asense of emotional and psychological euphoria and well-being.

Visual, auditory and tactile hallucinations may occur, causing usersto see or hear things that do not actually exist.

These drugs include:

LSD, also known as 'trips', 'acid' and 'microdots';

magic mushrooms (psilocybin), also known as 'mushies orshrooms;

ecstasy (MDMA/methylenedioxymethamphetamine), also known as'E', 'XTC' and 'Eccies', produces a combination of hallucinogenic andstimulant effects; and

Ketamine, also known as 'K' and 'Special K'.

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Why Do People Use Drugs?

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Why Do People Use Illegal Drugs?

to fit in with a group of friends

they might be curious

just bored.

Often to help the person escape from reality for awhile.

If a person is sad or upset, a drug can - temporarily -make the person feel better or forget about problems.But this escape lasts only until the drug wears off.

Drugs don't solve problems and using them often causesother problems on top of the ones the person had in

the first place.

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Drug Addiction

Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive

drug seeking and use despite harmful consequences to the individual

who is addicted and to those around them.

Drug addiction is a brain disease because the abuse of drugs leads tochanges in the structure and function of the brain.

No single factor can predict whether or not a person will become addicted

to drugs. Risk for addiction is influenced by a persons biology, social

environment, and age or stage of development. The more risk factors anindividual has, the greater the chance that taking drugs can lead to

addiction.

Addiction and the Adolescent Brain

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Signs Someone is Using Drugs

lose interest in school

change friends (to hang out with kids who use drugs)

become moody, negative, cranky or worried all the time

ask to be left alone a lot

have trouble concentrating sleep a lot (maybe even in class)

get in fights

have red or puffy eyes

lose or gain weight cough a lot

have a runny nose all of the time

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What You Can Do To Help

The best thing to do is to tell an adult that youtrust; a parent, other relative, teacher, coach, orschool counselor.

The person might need professional help to stopusing drugs. A grown-up can help the personfind the treatment he or she needs to stop usingdrugs.

Kids can also help others is by choosing not to try

or use drugs. It's a good way for friends to sticktogether.

Understanding drugs and why they are dangerousis another good step for a kid to take.