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K. Nichols 2013 A hallucinogen is a drug that causes hallucinations. Examples include LSD and different types of mushrooms. K. Nichols 2013 A stimulant is a drug that stimulates your body, you are more aware, alert, jumpy and fidgety, your heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration increase, often elevate your mood, dilate your pupils and decrease appetite. Legal stimulants are caffeine (coffee and soda), nicotine (cigarettes and cigars), energy drinks, and such. Illegal stimulants include meth(amphetamine)s, cocaine, crack, ecstasy. K. Nichols 2013 A depressant is a drug that overrelaxes your body, you are less aware and more susceptible to others' influence. Your heart rate and BP slow down, and you can lack coordination. Examples include marijuana, GHB, date rape drugs, Valium, tranquilizers, sleep medicine, muscle relaxers, and alcohol. K. Nichols 2013 K. Nichols 2013 K. Nichols 2013 Street names: Blow Snow Nose Candy K. Nichols 2013 It is a STIMULANT drug It makes people feel energetic and powerful. However, as these feelings wear off people quickly become depressed and edgy. K. Nichols 2013 Cocaine is among the most addictive drugs out there. Not only can it harm your body, it can mess up your life to the point where all that matters is your next fix. Being high on cocaine often results in violence, car crashes, falls, burns, and drowning. Cocaine can also make you violent or even make you do bizarre repetitive motions. Some users sit and repetitively draw doodles or, in severe cases, pick at their skin over and over to try to get the bugs out they think are underneath. K. Nichols 2013 Dangers and effects: Doing cocaine can produce a particularly aggressive paranoid behaviour in users. When addicted individuals stop using cocaine, they often become depressed. Prolonged cocaine snorting can damage the nasal septum enough to cause it to collapse. Cocaine-related deaths are often a result of cardiac arrest or seizures followed by respiratory arrest. K. Nichols 2013 Street names: XTC E Clarity K. Nichols 2013 Ecstasy is a STIMULANT It produces an energetic feeling and is commonly used to help kids stay awake at raves. Users also experience surreal, visual distortions. K. Nichols 2013 Short term and Long term effects: Ecstasy is a cross between an amphetamine and a hallucinogen. It pumps up the heart rate and blood pressure, so users may become hyperactive. It can produce blurred vision, fainting, chills, sweating, muscle tension, and disorientation due to such It decreases the body’s ability to regulate temperature and can lead to heat stroke and more importantly, brain damage. K. Nichols 2013 Street Names tootsie roll smack junk Description: Heroin is produced from opium, which is obtained from seedpods of the oriental poppy. In its pure form it is a white to dark brown powder. Heroin is one of the most widely feared drugs. K. Nichols 2013 Dangers and Effects: Because people, who are high on heroin, or craving the next fix, don't use good judgment, they often share needles with other users. And sharing needles means massive risk for HIV infection and hepatitis...two incurable diseases, which can kill. K. Nichols 2013 Short term effects include: inability to concentrate, apathy and drowsiness. One of the most noticeable effects is on the pupils of the eye which become pinpoints as the drug causes them to contract. Long term effects include developing a physical and psychological dependence as their body craves more to achieve the original intensity and effect. Chronic users may develop collapsed veins because they have injected too often, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses, cellulites and liver disease. In addition to the effects of the drug itself, street heroin may have additives that do not dissolve in the blood stream which can result in the blood vessels leading to the lungs, liver, kidneys and brain becoming clogged up. This in turn can lead to lifethreatening infections. Withdrawal symptoms can occur within hours. Symptoms include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, vomiting and cold spells with goose pimples (cold turkey). Major symptoms occur between 24 and 48 hours after the last dose and usually subside after about ten days. But some people have shown persistent withdrawal signs for many months. K. Nichols 2013 The longer name is Methamphetamine Street names: crystal ice glass Description Methamphetamine was created as an artificial chemical substance. Methamphetamine is a powder, sometimes made into capsules or pills. K. Nichols 2013 Dangers and Effects Chronic abuse produces a psychosis that resembles schizophrenia and is characterized by paranoia, picking at the skin, preoccupation with one's own thoughts, and auditory and visual hallucinations. Violent and erratic behaviour is frequently seen among chronic abusers of amphetamines, especially methamphetamine. Methamphetamine, in all its forms, is highly addictive and toxic. K. Nichols 2013 Short term effects When methamphetamine is injected or smoked it immediately produces an intensely pleasurable sensation known as a "rush" or a "flash" by releasing high levels of dopamine in the brain. Snorting methamphetamine produces an euphoric sensation, but not a rush. Even taken in small amounts, methamphetamine can cause: Increased wakefulness. Increased physical activity. Decreased appetite. Increased respiration. Hyperthermia. Increased heart rate and blood pressure. Irregular heart beat. Cardiovascular collapse. K. Nichols 2013 Long term effects Chronic (constant) meth use can result in: Violent behaviour. Psychotic behaviour. Auditory hallucinations. Mood disturbances. Delusions and paranoia. Homicidal or suicidal thoughts. The long-term use of methamphetamine can cause damage to the brain similar to that caused by Alzheimer's disease, stroke and epilepsy. This brain damage lingers for months even after the user stops methamphetamine use. Methamphetamine abuse can produce extreme anorexia. Even over a short period of use, methamphetamine can cause drastic changes in the appearance of the user. K. Nichols 2013 Street Names · shrooms · magic mushroom Description are fungi that contain the psychoactive compounds psilocybin and psilocin. There are multiple Use the tops or caps areK. ingested. Nichols 2013 Dangers and Effects Poisonous (sometimes lethal) wild picked mushrooms can be easily mistaken for psilocybin mushrooms, but true psilocybin mushrooms are non-toxic,As with many psychedelic substances, the effects of psychedelic mushrooms are subjective and can vary considerably among individual users. The mind-altering effects of psilocybincontaining mushrooms typically last anywhere from 3 to 8 hours depending on dosage, preparation method, and personal metabolism. However, the effects can seem to last much longer due to psilocybin's ability to alter time perception K. Nichols 2013 Noticeable changes to the audio, visual, and tactile senses may become apparent around an hour after ingestion. These shifts in perception, visually, include enhancement and contrasting of colors, strange light phenomena (such as auras or "halos" around light sources), increased visual acuity, surfaces that seem to ripple, shimmer, or breathe; complex open and closed eye visuals of form constants or images, objects that warp, morph, or change solid colors; a sense of melting into the environment, and trails behind moving objects. As with other psychedelics such as LSD, the experience, or "trip," is strongly dependent upon set and setting. A negative environment could likely induce a bad trip, whereas a comfortable and familiar environment would allow for a pleasant experience. K. Nichols 2013 Street Names · Georgia Home Boy -Fantasy · Liquid Ectasy -Mils Description Some chemicals convert to GHB in the stomach and blood stream. GBL, or gamma-butyrolactone, is one such prodrug. Other prodrugs include 1,4-butanediol. There may be additional toxicity concerns with these precursors. 1,4-B and GBL are normally found as pure liquids, although they may be mixed with other more harmful solvents when intended for industrial use, e.g., as paint stripper or varnish thinner. Use pills which disolve in drinks K. Nichols 2013 Effects Its effects have been described anecdotally as comparable to alcohol and ecstasy use, such as euphoria, disinhibition, enhanced sensuality and empathogenesis. At higher doses, GHB may induce nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, agitation, visual disturbances, depressed breathing, amnesia, unconsciousness, and death. The effects of GHB can last from 1.5 to 3 hours, or even longer if large doses have been consumed or if it is mixed with alcohol. K. Nichols 2013 It has a salty taste but, as it is colourless and odorless,[27] it has been described as "very easy to add to drinks"[27] that mask the flavor. GHB has been used in cases of drug-related sexual assault, usually when the victim is vulnerable due to intoxication with a sedative, generally alcohol.[29] K. Nichols 2013 Drugs are chemicals. They work in the brain by tapping into it’s communication system and interfere with the way nerve cells normally send, receive, and process information Some drugs can make you look older (causing wrinkly skin and loss of hair) Drugs and alcohol affect and change your moods over a short and long term Drugs and alcohol can and most likely will ruin your life Drugs and alcohol take years off of your life and you can miss some of the best times or most important times in your life Taking drugs, even once, can kill you. K. Nichols 2013