Transcript Drugs - St. Jude`s Global School Kerala India

Drugs – Their Physical and Psychological effects
Everything you must know about Drugs
1. Drugs are dangerous
2. How safe are we?
3. Managing our powerful …but poor brain
4. How it affects the brain, body and mind
5. Categories of Drugs
6. Physical and Psychological Impacts of Alcohol
7. Physical and Psychological Impacts of Drugs
8. Who is behind and why? – what are their motives
9. Identifying a Drug user
10.Risk factors and Prevention
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Everything Dangerous You must know
about Drugs
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Dangerous
Great People - Dangerous Mistake
Michael Joseph Jackson (1958 –2009): King of Pop
Guinness World Records as the most successful
entertainer
A small single simple
mistake can lead to
end of all Greatness
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Why a small single simple mistake can become so dangerous?
Our Great powerful .. but Poor Brain
Powerful - It gives everything you see
Poor
- It needs only little as its food:
Key aspects
Food you take
Information you feed
Key Solutions
Control your Food and Senses that gives
information to brain
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This means you must not get addicted to any
food or any information to a level your brain
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can’t control you later.
Brain and addiction
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What, our brain is afraid of:
 Drugs
 Addictions
Definition of Drug
1 - An illegal substance that some people use
for the physical and/or mental effects
2 - A substance used as a medicine or in a medicine = prescribed drugs
A drug
- has bad side effects
- causes addiction
Definition of Addiction:
The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing,
or activity:
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Words to Know
Depressant — A depressant is a drug that slows a person down. Doctors prescribe depressants to help
people be less angry, anxious, or tense. Depressants relax muscles and make people feel sleepy, less
stressed out, or like their head is stuffed. Some people may use these drugs illegally to slow themselves
down and help bring on sleep
Hallucinogen — A hallucinogen is a drug, such as LSD, that changes a person's mood and makes him or
her see or hear things that aren't really there or think strange thoughts.
Inhalant — An inhalant, such as glue or gasoline, is sniffed or "huffed" to give the user an immediate
rush. Inhalants produce a quick feeling of being drunk — followed by sleepiness, staggering, dizziness,
and confusion.
Narcotic — A narcotic dulls the body's senses (leaving a person less aware and alert and feeling carefree)
and relieves pain. Narcotics can cause someone to sleep, have convulsions, and even slip into a coma.
Heroin is an illegal narcotic because it is has dangerous side effects and is very addictive.
Stimulant — A stimulant speeds up the body and brain. Stimulants, such as cocaine, have the opposite
effect of depressants. Usually, stimulants make someone feel high and energized. When the effects of a
stimulant wear off, the person will feel tired or sick.
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“Many foods, especially junk foods are added with ingredients for addiction similar to some drugs”
A very busy poor addict
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ALCOHOL AND DRUGS
Even a little can make you have less control
over what happens to you and your body.
You can end up in uncomfortable or even
dangerous situations.
The safest choice is not to use alcohol and
drugs at all.
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About 10 grams of cobra
venom is dissolved in 100 litres
of alcohol,”
Miscellaneous Tips:
Do not accept any type of food from strangers
while traveling by trains or busses regardless of
how well dressed the person offering you the
food may be
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• Ice-cream parlours
• Beauty parlours
• Hotels (restaurants)
• Trains
• Clubs
• Parties
..better be careful everywhere
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Pulled out her own eyes due to pain
Torn out her own skin
Something that started for little fun
Now with shrilling screams …waiting to die
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Categories of Drugs
Stimulants
- “uppers”
- stimulate the central nervous system
amyl nitrite, cocaine, crack ecstasy
Depressants - “downers”
- depress the central nervous system
- alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazepines
Coca leaves
Analgesics - powerful painkillers
- from opium poppy or synthetically produced
Hallucinogens - “psychedelics”
- dramatically alter perception
Marijuana leaves
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Impacts of Alcohol on Body and Mind
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Affect brain being a central nervous system depressant.
Deters immunity
Cancer : 2-4% of all cancer cases are related to alcohol
Liver disease - fatty liver, hepatitis, cirrhosis and cancer. The liver breaks
down alcohol at the rate of only one drink per hour.
Heart or respiratory failure
Even small amounts reduces coordination and distorts judgment
Make you lose control of you and your body - Lead to all kinds of accidents
Increase risk to commit suicide under drug or alcohol influence.
Drinking large amounts very rapidly or using with drugs can be fatal.
Pregnant women who drink alcohol may give birth to babies with
 Mental retardation
 Brain, liver, heart and other organ damage like vision and breathing
problems
 learning and reasoning difficulties
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Physical & Psychological Impacts of Drugs
Barbiturates and tranquilizers - nausea, seizures, impotence and coma.
Cocaine - tremors, seizures, psychosis, impotence and heart or respiratory
failure.
LSD - nausea, rapid heart rate, depression, and disorientation, impotence,
paranoia and psychosis.
Marijuana and hashish - rapid heart rate and memory impairment, cognitive
problems, infertility, weakened immune system, and possible lung damage.
Narcotics - respiratory and circulatory depression, dizziness, impotence,
constipation, and withdrawal sickness and death.
PCP - unpredictable and violent behaviour, dizziness, numbness, high heart
rate and blood pressure, convulsions, impotence, fatal heart and lung failure or
ruptured blood vessels.
Stimulants such as amphetamines - high heart rate and blood pressure,
headache, blurred vision, dizziness, impotence, skin disorders, tremors,
seizures, and psychosis.
Combining drugs with each other or with alcohol is fatal.
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Physical & Psychological Impacts of Drugs
Drug
Street Names
OPIUM
black stuff, chandu
MORPHINE
M, white stuff, white
powder
HEROIN
White, junk, powder,
putih, medicine
CANNABIS
originated from
the hemp plant,
Cannabis Sativa
marijuana, ganja, pot,
grass, joints
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Physical & Psychological Effects
Withdrawal symptoms, e.g. aches,
spasms, stomach cramps &
convulsions, shaking & vomiting, runny
nose, watery eyes, impotency, liver &
kidney damage, excess level leads to
death
Loss of concentration & memory, heart
rate increases, poor balance &
coordination, anxiety, depression,
impotency, liver & kidney damage,
excess level leads to death
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Drug
Street Names
Physical & Psychological Effects
METHAMPHETAMIN
E HYDROCHLORIDE
Hirropon, shabu
Strong effect on the nervous system.
Loss of weight, severe convulsions
(fits), impotency, hallucinations, liver &
kidney damage, damage to the heart,
stroke & death.
METHYLENEDIOCYMETHAMPHETAMINE
(MDMA)
Ecstasy, Pink XTC
Blood pressure and increase in pulse
rate, false confidence & closeness with
others, dehydration, convulsions,
vomiting & anxiety, impotency, damage
to the heart, stroke & death.
KETAMINE
Also known as "K",
Special K,
YABA
Methamphetamine,
crazy horse, mad
medicine
Hallucination, Altered sensation, mood
and consciousness, Affected judgment
and co-ordination, nausea and
vomiting, memory loss, impotency,
excess level leads to death
Increased heart beat, dehydration,
paranoid feeling, impotency, insomnia,
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irritability, depression, stroke & death.
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Who is behind and why?
Terrorists
– To make money for terrorism
- To trap people for becoming human bomb etc.
People greedy for money
– it is costlier than gold with huge profit margins
Some countries
- sponsor exporting of drugs
- to smash economy of our country
- to destroy the future of India, through a drugged generation
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Who is behind and why? ….contd
Business Houses
- Some Food companies, hoteliers, restaurants add small doses
for getting customers addicted to their products
Religious prayer groups
- to create hallucination (…pain gone etc. make them see God
- or talk to the dead)
People with Bad intentions (Bad friends)
- There is a drug which will make you say Yes without any
thinking (for personal use for material gains or pleasure or sex
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Identifying a Drug User
• hostile, violent, destructive behavior, outbreaks of temper
• unsteadiness, clumsiness, slurred speech, talking to oneself
• dreamy, hallucinations, in a state of confusion
• loss of concentration or attention
• loss of interest in personal care, appearance, food, hygiene
• social withdrawal
• decline in attendance or performance in school
• frequents places like storage rooms, toilets, isolated corners
• marks on arms, lips or sores on nose & mouth, bloodshot eyes
• smell solvents on breath, clothes, hair (glue sniffers)
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Risk Factors
 Ineffective parenting – monitoring & involvement
 Poor family bonding and chaotic home environment
 Lack of spiritual belief and moral strengths
 Failure in school performance
 Poor monitoring and care at school
 poor social coping skills
 associations with bad / deviant peers and elders
 perceptions of peer and community environment
 Lack of awareness on threats from drug use
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Prevention is better than Cure
 Mental strength to say No to drugs
 Strengthen commitment against drug use
 Reinforce attitudes against drug use
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Is it worth the risk?
BEWARE
All faces may not reveal the trap behind
Thank you for your Attention
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