Transcript Chapter 11 Lesson 2

Using Drugs Properly
• Drug – non food substance taken into the
body that can change the structure or the
function of the body or mind
• Medicine – drug that is used to treat an
illness or relieve pain
Read Package label
• Directions explain medications purpose
and how to use it
• Warnings about any side effects and when
to ask a doctor before using the medicine
• A list of active ingredients
• The expiration date, which is the date after
which the medicine should not be used
Misusing and Abusing Drugs
• Takes more than the recommended or
prescribed dosage of a medicine or mixes
medicines without asking a doctor
• Continue to take medicine after it is no
longer needed
• Stops taking a prescribed medicine sooner
than the doctors in instructions indicate
Misusing and Abusing Drugs
2 forms of drug abuse
• Illegal – Using substances that are illegal,
marijuana, cocaine, LSD
• Legal drugs – Using a legal drug in a
harmful way, painkillers
Marijuana
• Mood altering drug
• Made from leaves of the HEMP plant
• Usually smoked when rolled in cigarette
paper, in pipe or mixed with food
• Can make you feel relaxed, sad, fearful,
and suspicious
• Short and Long term effects – PAGE- 303
Stimulants
• Drug that speeds up the bodies functions
• Cocaine, crack cocaine
• Increases heart rate, breathing rate, blood
pressure
• Most stimulants are illegal
• People can become addicted to stimulants
Amphetamines
• Strong stimulant drugs that speed up the
nervous system
• Come in many forms and can be smoked,
inhaled, swallowed or injected
• Gives user feeling of energy and makes
them stay awake
• Page 304 – side effects of amphetamines
Amphetamines
Cocaine and Crack Cocaine
• White powder made for leaves of the coca
plant
• Inhaled, injected, smoked
• Gives a brief feeling of power but quickly
replaced by anxiety and depression
• First time users run risk of addiction or
fatal heart attack
Crack cocaine and Cocaine
Cocaine and Crack Cocaine
• Crack Cocaine – concentrated form of
cocaine
• When smoked reaches the brain in 10
seconds
• Produces feeling of energy and
excitement, feeling only lasts about 15
minutes
• Then user feels depressed and raves
more of the drug
Depressants
• Drugs that slow down the body’s functions
and reactions, including heart and
breathing rates
• Come in tablet or capsule form and are
swallowed
• Doctors sometimes prescribe to treat
sleeplessness or anxiety
• Tranquilizers
Depressants
Depressants
• Make the user feel very relaxed
• Abusers experience mood swings or
depression
• If mixed with alcohol can cuase coma or
death
Other Illegal drugs
• Inhalants – substances whose fumes are
breathed and produces mind altering
sensations (glue, paint gas, spray paint)
• Causes nausea, vomiting and brain
damage, coma, death
Inhalants
Other Illegal drugs
• Narcotics – Drugs that relieve pain and
dull senses
• Some are legal but very carefully
controlled by doctor
• Morphine and codeine, oxycotten
Other Illegal drugs
• Hallucinogens – drugs that distort moods,
thoughts and senses
• LSD, PCP
• People may become violent, due to
imaginary images sounds or distortions of
real objects
LSD
PCP