Transcript Using Drugs

Ways Drugs Enter the Body
(1) Orally
* Taken in the mouth.
– Swallowing-pills, capsules
– Chewing-pills, food (marijuana)
– Drinking-liquid, rohyphnol (dissolved in drinks)
* Enter the bloodstream through stomach and small
intestine.
(2) Injection
• hypodermic needle.
• The drug acts quickly. Injected in the muscle
(IM) or the vein(IV) (instant).
• Often drug users share needles and infectious
diseases are passed.
(3) Smoking
• Drugs that are often smoked are tobacco,
marijuana, and crack cocaine, heroin, opium,
peyote, meth.
• Enters bloodstream through lungs
(4)Inhaling Drugs
• Inhaling means breathing in the drug.
• Good drugs: asthma medication.
• Many drugs are abused by inhaling.
– Nitrous oxide
– Paint fumes
– Markers
– Gas
– Helium
– Pressurized air
*Enters bloodstream through lungs.
(5)Transdermal
• medicine slowly is released into the skin and absorbed
into the bloodstream.
• Snort, anal, under tongue, eyes
• Transdermal Patch- sticks to the skin like a bandage.
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Ointments
Drops
LSD
Hormones
Nicotine
Same drug, different form.
• Every drug comes in more than one form
• Antibiotics- pill, liquid, or injection.
• Nicotine-smoked, chewed, transdermal patch,
chewing gum.