Transcript Benefits and Risks

Benefits and Risks
Answers to What am I? cards
A cannabis
B cocaine
C ecstasy
D speed
E alcohol
F nicotine
G volatile substances
H caffeine
I codeine on prescription (stronger than shop
bought)
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What am I?
Slows down brain and body
Changes way you see and hear things
Pleasant relaxed feeling
Bad trip – unpleasant, paranoid or confused state
Increases risk of mental health problems like
schizophrenia
• Long term use when smoked can cause lung
cancer
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What am I?
Highly addictive both physically and emotionally
Feeling lasts about 30 mins
Fit people can have heart attacks
Can cause panic attacks
Has powerful high that can leave you feeling really
down
Speed up your mind and body
Can feel very low for days afterwards
If caught imprisoned maybe imprisoned for up to 7
years and get a criminal record
You can never tell what it is mixed with
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What am I?
Changes way you see and hear things
Feeling great love for other people
Makes brain and body more alert
Can be energetic for hours
Psychological dependence – feel need for drug
Effects last 3-6 hours
After feel tired and depressed
Liver, kidney and heart problems
You can never tell what it is mixed with
You need to take more and more to feel its effect
Life imprisonment if you sell it
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What am I?
• Psychological dependence – feel need for drug
• Makes you feel excited, confident, full of energy
• Can make you feel anxious, tense, and have
hallucinations
• Long term use can lead to mental health
problems
• Loss of appetite and weight loss
• Depression and tiredness for two days afterwards
• If caught with it 5 years in prison and prison
record
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What am I?
• Exaggerates your mood – if you are feeling
happy will feel happier, if sad, sadder
• Increases confidence
• Can make people aggressive and
argumentative
• Damages heart and other organs
• Causes cancer e.g. breast cancer
• Addictive
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What am I?
Addictive - physically and emotionally
Contains arsenic, mercury and lead
Effect lasts about 5-10 mins
Speeds up heart rates blood pressure
therefore increased chance of heart problem
• It feels like it relaxes you
• Increased concentration
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What am I?
• Effect is excitement and happiness
• Effects are short lived so users keep topping
up
• Can cause instant death
• Long term use damages brain, liver and
kidneys
• Can causes psychological dependence
• Slows down brain and body
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What am I?
• Is a stimulant and makes user fell more alert
• Can lead to anxiety and panic attacks
• Increases adrenaline which raises heart rate and
blood pressure
• Can cause something like a panic attack - feeling
very afraid, shortness of breath and sweating
• Mental health problems – paranoid thoughts
• Excessive consumption can cause death
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What am I?
• Is an analgesic/pain killer
• Also makes user feel calm or well
• Is addictive and comes from the same family
of substances as morphine and heroin
• Usually prescribed by a doctor
Analgesics/painkillers
• Aspirin, ibuprofen and paracetamol, are not
addictive.
• Small risk of problems with the extra-strength
formulations of these medicines that contain
codeine as an additional painkiller. Although dose
of codeine is very low, it's a member of the opiate
group of drugs
• Most painkiller addiction is related to
prescription painkillers :
e.g. higher strength codiene or morphine
Brain storm the risks/costs/
negative/problems to do with
substance misuse and the
perceived benefits for choosing
to take them.
RISKS
BENEFITS
‘One thing I found
out/interesting
during this lesson
was ….’
A canabbis
D speed
H caffeine
F nicotine
C ecstasy
B cocaine
G volatile substances
I codeine
F nicotine