Drugs Drugs Drugs

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Drugs Drugs Drugs

• Marijuana Alcohol Cocaine Heroin Methamphetamines
• Amphetamines Inhalants Steroids.

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Marijuana

• Grass, pot,maryjane, weed
• Contains more than 400 toxic chemicals
• Impairs physical reaction time
• THC is chemical that causes brain cell
  destruction
• Addictive and noted as lead in drug for other
  drug usage

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Cocaine

• A stimulant
• Increases heart rate and blood pressure
• Depression
• Anxiety and fear

• Addicted on first usage
• Comes from cocoa plant
• Can be injected, sniffed, or smoked

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Methamphetamines

• Speed
• user can work and talk longer
• feelings of joy, strength, alertness
• withdrawal causes severe mental illness

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Alcohol

• Birth defects
• Low resistance to disease
• Destroys the liver
• Depression
• Drunk driving death rate between users age 15 to
  24 high
• Addictive

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Inhalants

• Paint cans
• White out
• Airplane glue
• Asthma inhalers
• Household cleaners

• Destroys brain cells
• Lung cancer
• Blood poisoning
• Nose cancer