Transcript What drugs can really do - Porterville Unified School District

To your
Mental Health
• This drug is this drug is a "Narcotic", its a highly addictive
drug derived from morphine; a "downer" or depressant that
affects the brain’s pleasure, and it interferes and toys with the
brain’s ability to perceive pain
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Marijuana (Weed, Dank, Bud, or Cush), they go by all
sorts of names on the street but this drug is just as bad
as all the rest, you smoke it once and hate it, you usually
wont like it, you smoke it and like it, it can be the
gateway drug.
Another drug that is very addictive and the risk of
loosing teeth, and Heart problems, Brain function is
less then before Lungs and Kidneys will start to shut
down.
Methamphetamine - meth for short - is a very addictive stimulant drug. It is a powder that can be
made into a pill or a shiny rock (called a crystal). The powder can be eaten or snorted up the nose. It
can also be mixed with liquid and injected into your body with a needle. Crystal meth is smoked in a
small glass pipe.
Meth at first causes a rush of good feelings, but then users feel edgy, overly excited, angry, or afraid.
Meth use can quickly lead to addiction.
(MedlinePlus.com)
PCP, or phencyclidine, is a “dissociative” anesthetic that was developed in the 1950s as a
surgical anesthetic. Its sedative and anesthetic effects are trance-like, and patients
experience a feeling of being “out of body” and detached from their environment. Use of
PCP in humans was discontinued in 1965, because it was found that patients often
became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its anesthetic effects.
(DrugFree.org)
LSD is the most common hallucinogen and is one of the
most potent mood-changing chemicals. It is manufactured
from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a fungus that
grows on rye and other grains.
(DrugFree.org)
The effects of drug abuse will cause you to looked,
act, and feel different then you have before you
started doing these drugs.