Drugs

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Drugs

• Stimulants
• Depressants
• Narcotics

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Review Questions 1 2

• 1. Stage 1 is called the _____ stage?

• 2. Stage 2 is called the ______ stage?

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Review Questions 3 4

• 3. What stage is known as the Harmful use stage?

• 4. What stage is known as the recreational use
  stage?

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Answers

• 1. Normal Feelings
• 2. Initial Use
• 3. Stage 4
• 4. Stage 3

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Stimulants

• Define speeds up the nervous system.
• They make people feel alert, awake, and active.
• Increase
• Blood pressure
• Heart rate
• Breathing rate

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Types of Stimulants

• Cocaine
• Can be snorted, injected, or smoked.
• 3 minutes to reach brain snorted.
• 15 seconds when injected.
• 7 seconds when smoked

• Amphetamines
• Are used as diet pills
• Ecstasy
• Damage brain
• Heatstroke

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Ecstasy and Cocaine
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Types of Stimulants (2)

• Methamphetamine
• Called Ice,Meth,Crank
• Ephedrine
• Used in diet pills

• Caffeine
• Most widely used stimulant and is not a
  controlled substance.
• Symptoms
• Irregular heart beats
• Irritates stomach

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Meth and Steroids
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Health Consequences

• Death - Seizers, stop breathing then die
• Body Tumors,vomiting, increase HR
• Mind Confusion, aggressive and paranoid
• Dependence Body builds up tolerance quickly
• Increase risk of HIV
• Increase risk of accidents, violence, crime
• Teeth grinding with ecstasy

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Depressants

• Define Slows down the nervous system
• They slow down the cell function
• Decrease
• Heart Rate
• Blood pressure
• Sometimes breathing

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Types and Prescription

• Types
• Alcohol
• Barbiturates
• Tranquilizers
• Prescribe
• Relief of anxiety
• Tension
• Nervousness
• Sleeplessness

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Narcotics

• Define Used to kill pain
• Types
• Morphine
• Codeine
• Heroin
• Oxycontin

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Heroin and Oxycontin
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Health Consequences

• Death
• Body Euphoria, nausea, increase HR, clammy
  skin.
• Mind Can not make decisions
• Dependence Increase tolerance
• Increase risk of HIV
• Increase risk of accidents, violence, crime