Transcript Club drugs - Tri-County Women's Centre

Club Drugs
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What Are Club Drugs?
Club drugs are a group of
psychoactive drugs that tend
to be abused by teens and
young adults at bars,
nightclubs, concerts, and
parties.
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MDMA (ecstasy)
• What is MDMA?
MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine)
MDMA, called “adam,” “ecstasy,” or “XTC”
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Effects
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Nervous
Agitated
Depression
Exhaustion
Dehydration
High Blood
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• Hyperthermia
• Organ Failure
• Heart Attack
• Coma
• Death
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Side effects
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Rapid Eye Movement
Tension
Teeth Clenching
Nausea
Blurred Vision
Faintness
Chills
Sweating
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Psychological Effects
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Depression
Loss of appetite
Fatigue
Confusion
Sleep disturbances
Anxiety
Paranoia
Psychotic episodes
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Drug Purity
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The Love Drug
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Takes about 20 min
Lasts 3-6 hrs sometimes longer
Sense of well-being
Euphoria
Enhanced sense of touch
Boost in energy
Feel more sexual
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Extreme nausea
Unable to sweat or urinate
Muscle cramps
Unconscious
Overheated
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Rohypnol
Dangerous when taken on its own, and
fatally dangerous when combined with
alcohol, Rohypnol is horrifyingly infamous
for being the "date-rape drug"
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• Rohypnol is tasteless and odorless,
and it dissolves easily in carbonated
beverages. The sedative and toxic
effects of Rohypnol are aggravated by
concurrent use of alcohol. Even
without alcohol, a dose of Rohypnol as
small as 1 mg can impair a victim for 8
to 12 hours.
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• What does Rohypnol look like?
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Effects
• Effect within 20 to 30 minutes
• Tolerance
• With other drugs
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Are there other drugs that are
being abused like Rohypnol?
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Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB)
• What is it????
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GHB
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Effects Of GHB
What GHB does to you depends on:
• how much you take
• the type of GHB you take
• your height and weight
• your general health
• your mood
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• whether you use GHB on its own or with
other drugs
• whether you use alone or with others, at
home or at a party, etc.
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Immediate effects of small amounts
of GHB
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feel good and confident
feel excited or upset
take more risks than usual
have a heightened sense of touch
want to have sex
feel drowsy or sleepy
suffer memory lapses
feel dizzy
get headaches
suffer from tremors
feel sick
have diarrhoea or urinary incontinence
effects on your body may include that:
your heart beats slower
your body temperature lowers
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Large amounts of GHB
If you take high doses of GHB you may:
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feel dizzy
suffer from tremors
vomit
get tunnel vision
become uncoordinated (ataxia)
become disorientated
feel confused, irritated or agitated
hallucinate
have blackouts and memory lapses
have convulsions (fits)
have a heart attack
overdose
go into a coma
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• Appear to be asleep but cannot be woken.
• Be incoherent, sweating profusely, vomiting and have
irregular or shallow breathing.
• Not be able to stand and/or have involuntary muscle
contractions.
• An overdose of GHB can cause:
• Faster, irregular or weak heartbeat
• Breathing problems
• Heart attack
• Coma
• Death.
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Withdrawal
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confusion, agitation, anxiety, panic
paranoia
insomnia
shaking
muscle cramps
perspiration
delirium
deep depression (feeling very down or sad)
hallucinations
tachycardia (rapid heartbeat)
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Ketamine Can:
• Reduce sensations in the body
• Make some people physically incapable of
moving while under the influence.
• Cause changes in how people see and
hear things.
• Cause confusion, panic attacks, and
depression
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Risks
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You don't feel pain properly
Mixing with other drugs
Bladder problems
Abscesses
Mental Health
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Methamphetamine
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What are its short-term effects?
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Rush
High
EuphoriaAgitation
Violence
Insomnia
Decreased appetite
Irritability
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Anxiety
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Convulsions
Heart Attack
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What are its long-term effects?
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Tolerance
Paranoia
Hallucinations
Repetitive behavior
Delusions of bugs
Psychosis
Stoke
Death
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Withdrawal
• Feeling moody or flat, right through to being severely
depressed
• Lack of energy, lethargic, exhaustion
• Getting no enjoyment or pleasure from usual activities
• Feeling irritable, angry, having a ‘short fuse’
• Feeling agitated so you can’t sit or lie still, feeling
anxious or nervous
• Having aches and pains
• Sleep disturbance, insomnia
• Problems with concentration and memory
• Cravings to use meth
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