Transcript Lets be Frank Mind Map and Research

By Jessica Foster
A trailer for a short
film that will start
off with a young
boy or girl with a
very spoilt life and
they ruin it for
themselves by
taking drugs and
becoming addicted
to them.
Ideas for my product;
e.g. a trailer to signify
the importance of
stamping out drug use.
An advert
explaining the
different drugs
to children to
avoid their
encouragement
to them when
they become
teenagers.
A stop motion
advert made of clay
to interest children
and understand the
importance of
avoiding drugs.
A drug is any substance
other than food, that when
inhaled, injected, smoked,
consumed, absorbed via a
patch on the skin or
dissolved under the tongue
causes a physiological
change in the body.
In English, the noun "drug"
is thought to originate from
Old French "drogue",
possibly deriving later into
"droge-vate" from Middle
Dutch meaning "dry
barrels", referring to
medicinal plants preserved
in them.[14] The transitive
verb "to drug" (meaning
intentionally administer a
substance to someone,
often without their
knowledge) arose later and
invokes the psychoactive
rather than medicinal
properties of a substance.
I have created a poster for the site
‘talktoFrank’ a website created in 2003 to
help teenagers and young adults understand
drugs a lot more. For my poster I have
designed a teenagers room destroyed by the
implication of drug use. At the top of the
paper, there is a drawing of a skeleton falling
from a spilt in half drug, showing the results if
you take too many drugs and get yourself
addicted to them you could die. In the middle
of the drawing, I drew the ‘talktoFrank’ logo
to subtly encourage people to visit the site.
The teenagers room has been destroyed,
possibly a reaction from withdrawal
symptoms and the rest of the room has been
trashed with needles, pouches and other
lethal ways of injecting drugs into your
system.
 What is LSD? LSD stands for its chemical name, lysergic acid diethylamide,
and is commonly called ‘acid’. It’s a powerful hallucinogenic drug – this
means that users are likely to experience a distorted view of objects and
reality, including seeing and sometimes hearing things that aren’t there
(these are hallucinations). The experience of taking LSD is known as a ‘trip’.
Trips can be good or bad, but until you take it you don’t know how it will
affect you – and once it's started you can't stop it.
 Here are some of the main effects and risks of taking LSD:
 Time and movement can appear to speed up and slow down. Colour, sound
and objects can get distorted and you can experience double vision.
 These distortions of your senses can be quite unpredictable, sometimes
pleasant, but sometimes very frightening (these are called 'bad trips').
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What does acid do to you?
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A good trip can make users feel relaxed and happy, with pleasant hallucinations. A bad trip can
make you feel agitated and confused, with unpleasant and scary hallucinations. How the trip
goes can be affected by your surroundings, who you’re with and how comfortable you are with
them, and by your mood. If you don’t feel safe or comfortable, you’re more likely to have a bad
trip.
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It can also have other effects:
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A trip can appear to involve a speeding up and slowing down of time and movements, while
colour, sound and objects can get distorted. Users experience hallucinations (seeing and/or
hearing things that aren’t there).
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LSD can also make you feel tired, anxious, panicky and depressed.
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LSD can cause unpleasant, frightening or scary hallucinations and distortions of your senses –
and these effects can be quite unpredictable.
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Trips can feed off your imagination and may heighten a mood you're already in. So if you’re in a
bad mood, feeling worried or depressed, LSD may just make these feelings worse.
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What is cannabis?
It’s the most widely-used illegal drug in Britain, although the numbers of people using it are falling.
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Cannabis is naturally occurring - it is made from the cannabis plant.
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The main active chemical in it is tetrahydrocannabinol (or THC for short).
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THC is the ingredient in cannabis that can make you feel very chilled out, happy and relaxed.
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THC can also make you hallucinate, meaning that it can alter your senses, so that you might see, hear or feel
things in a different way to normal.
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There are many myths about cannabis - that it’s safe because it’s natural, that using cannabis will completely
ruin your life, your health and your future or that using cannabis will lead you into using other, more
dangerous drugs. What is true is that cannabis can have some very real, harmful effects on your mind and
body, as well as creating longer-term problems:
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Cannabis effects how your brain works. It can make you feel very anxious and even paranoid, it can make it
difficult for you to concentrate and learn, make your memory worse and make you feel less motivated.
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Tobacco and cannabis share some of the same chemical 'nasties' and just like smoking tobacco, smoking
cannabis has been linked to lung diseases like tuberculosis and lung cancer.
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Using it has also been linked, in some people, to serious, long-term mental health problems.
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A conviction for possessing cannabis could lead to a caution, a fine or even jail.
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What are the effects of cannabis?
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Cannabis has a number of different effects. It is classed as a sedating and hallucinogenic drug. Its effects can
turn out to be pleasant or unpleasant:
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Taking cannabis can make people feel chilled out, relaxed and happy, and they may get the giggles or become
very talkative.
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It can make you more aware of your senses, and the hallucinogenic effects can even give you a feeling of
time slowing down.
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It can make you feel very hungry – this is sometimes called ‘getting the munchies'.
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Some people have one or two drags on a joint and feel light-headed, faint and sick. This is sometimes called a
‘whitey’.
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Cannabis may cause feelings of anxiety, suspicion, panic and paranoia.
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Cannabis can mess with your mind
Cannabis can mess with your mind and with your mood. It can disturb your sleep and can make you
depressed. Some will become anxious, panicky, and even aggressive. You might see or hear things which are
not there (known as hallucinations) which may be frightening. For some people, cannabis causes hours or
even days of anxiety, paranoia, delusions and hallucinations that usually only settles down after the cannabis
is stopped.
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Cannabis can freak you out - it can cause feelings of anxiety, suspicion, panic and paranoia.
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For people with illnesses such as schizophrenia, cannabis can cause a serious relapse.
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Regular cannabis use is known to be associated with an increase in the risk of later developing psychotic
illnesses including schizophrenia; and if you have a family background of mental illness, you may also have an
increased risk.