Chemistry 1 students conducted research on forms of chemical abuse and put together this slide show.

1. Created by the students of the
Chemistry 1 class

2. Lots of people are tempted
by the excitement or escape
that drugs seem to offer.
Many teens use drugs
because they're depressed
or think drugs will help
them escape their problems.
Drugs don't solve problems
— they simply hide feelings
and problems. When a drug
wears off, the feelings and
problems remain, or become
worse.
Drugs can ruin every aspect
of a person's life.

3.  In the case of alcohol and smoking there is a
detectable odor.
 Alcohol, cocaine and amphetamines affect
behavior.
 The withdrawal symptoms vary with the
drugs.

4. Did you know.......
 500,000 people die from drugs each year.
 30,000 people die from abusing alcohol and by
drinking and driving.
 31% of 9th grade students have tried cigarettes.
 Learn to say "no" to drugs!

6. Ways To Say No To Drugs
If you are ever confronted by someone who
wants you to use drugs, try these ways to say
no. Practice them with a friend or parent so
you will feel comfortable.
1. Saying "No Thanks"
2. Giving a Reason of Excuse
3. Repeated Refusal, or Keep Saying No
4. Walking away
5.Changing the Subject
6. Avoiding the Situation
7. Cold Shoulder
8. Strength in Numbers

8. Alcohol
Amphetamines
Cocaine and Crack
Depressants
Ecstasy (MDMA)
Heroin
LSD
Inhalants
Methamphetamine
Nicotine

9. NICOTINE (tobacco)
Nicotine is a highly addictive stimulant
found in tobacco. This drug is quickly
absorbed into the bloodstream when
smoked or chewed as tobacco.
Effects & Dangers:
Physical effects include rapid heartbeat,
increased blood pressure, shortness of
breath, and a greater likelihood of lung
cancer , and cancer of the larynx and
bladder Nicotine users have an
increased risk for cardiovascular
diseases and strokes. Smokers also have
bad breath and yellowed teeth. Chewing
tobacco users may suffer from cancers of
the mouth and neck.

10. ALCOHOL
The oldest and most widely used drug in
the world, alcohol is a depressant that
alters perceptions, emotions, and
senses.
Effects & Dangers:
Excess alcohol causes cirrhosis of the
liver.
High doses of alcohol seriously affect
judgment, coordination, causes
confusion, depression, short-term
memory loss, and slow reaction times.
Large volumes of alcohol drunk in a
short period of time may cause
alcohol poisoning.

11. AMPHETAMINES (stimulant)
Amphetamines are stimulants that
accelerate functions in the brain and
body. Prescription diet pills also fall into
this category of drugs.
Street Names: speed, uppers, dexies,
bennies
How They're Used: Amphetamines are
swallowed, snorted, inhaled, or
injected.
Effects & Dangers:
These drugs hit users with a fast high, also causing
dehydration, fever, and sleeplessness.
They pump up heart rate causing high blood pressure,
sweating, shaking, headaches sleeplessness, hallucinations
and intense paranoia.

12. COCAINE (stimulant)
Cocaine is a white crystalline powder made from the dried leaves of
the coca plant.
Street Names for Cocaine: coke, snow, blow, nose candy, white, big
C
How Used: Cocaine is inhaled through the nose or injected.
Effects & Dangers:
Cocaine is a stimulant that rocks the central nervous system, giving
users a quick, intense feeling of power and energy. Also causes
insomnia, weight loss, and heart irregularities. Injecting cocaine
can give you hepatitis or AIDS, if you share needles with other
users.

13. MARIJUANA
The most widely used illegal drug in the
United States, marijuana resembles
green, brown, or gray dried parsley
with stems or seeds. A stronger form
of marijuana called hashish (hash)
looks like brown or black cakes or
balls. Marijuana is often called a
gateway drug because frequent use
can lead to the use of stronger drugs.
Street Names: pot, weed, blunts, chronic,
grass, reefer, herb, ganja

14. How It's Used: Marijuana is usually smoked
— rolled in papers like a cigarette (joints),
or in hollowed-out cigars (blunts), pipes
(bowls), or water pipes (bongs). Some
people mix it into foods or brew it as a
tea.
Effects & Dangers: Marijuana can affect
mood and coordination. Users may
experience mood swings that range from
stimulated or happy to drowsy or
depressed. Marijuana also elevates heart
rate and blood pressure. The drug can also
make some people paranoid or cause
them to hallucinate. Steady smokers
suffer coughs, wheezing, and frequent
colds.

15.  CRACK
 Crack, named for its crackle when
heated, is made from cocaine. It
looks like white or tan pellets.
 Street Names for Crack: freebase,
rock
 How Used: Crack is smoked
Effects and dangers: Cocaine also
elevates heart rate, breathing rate,
blood pressure, and body
Temperature.

16. This is a designer drug created by underground chemists. It comes
in powder, tablet, or capsule form. Ecstasy is a popular club
drug among teens because it is widely available at raves, dance
clubs, and concerts.
Street Names: XTC, X, Adam, E, Roll
How It's Used: Ecstasy is swallowed or snorted.
Effects & Dangers: Users feel a tingly skin sensation and an
increased heart rate. It can also cause dry mouth, cramps, chills,
sweating, nausea, depression, paranoia, and anxiety, and
confusion. Ecstasy also raises the temperature of the body. This
increase can sometimes cause organ damage or even death.

17. Heroin comes from the dried milk of the opium
poppy, which is also used to create the class of
painkillers called narcotics — medicines like
codeine and morphine. Heroin can range from a
white to dark brown powder to a sticky, tar-like
substance.Street Names: horse, smack, Big H,
junk
How It's Used: Heroin is injected, smoked, or
inhaled (if it is pure).
Effects & Dangers: Heroin gives you a burst of
euphoric (high) feelings, especially if it's
injected. This high is often followed by
drowsiness, nausea, stomach cramps, and
vomiting. With long-term use, heroin ravages
the body, users have collapsed veins and put
themselves at risk of getting deadly infections
such as HIV and hepatitis.

18. OPIUM
This is a natural
narcotic made
 MORPHINE
from the opium
poppy plant. It This is the main ingredient
is usually in in opium and is usually a
powder form light brown or white
bitter tasting powder. It is an effective
and can be pain killer, and can be
swallowed or sniffed, taken orally or
smoked. injected.

19.  HEROIN
 It is highly addictive.
The common effects are
impairment of mental
 CODEINE faculties, confusion,
 This is a white inability to concentrate,
powder that can be slurred speech, poor
mixed with many coordination, slowed
liquids, and can be respiration and heart
drunk or injected. It beat.
is weaker than other
narcotics, therefore
used less frequently.

21. It is know scientifically as D- lysergic acid
diethylamide. It is a lab-brewed hallucinogen
and mood-changing chemical. LSD is
odorless, colorless, and tasteless.
Street Names: acid, blotter, doses, microdots
Effects & Dangers: Hallucinations occur
within 30 to 90 minutes of dropping acid.
People say their senses are intensified and
distorted — they see colors or hear sounds
and can't get off until the drug is finished
with them, about 12 hours or even longer!
Bad trips may cause panic attacks, confusion,
and delusions.

22. . PCP  MESCALINE
It is technically known  This drug comes
as phencyclidine , this from the peyote
drug is known on the plant. Bitter
street as “angel dust,” powder , usually
“hay” or “killer eaten
week.”
It is a white powder
that is dissolved in
water , and can be
smoked, inhaled or
injected

23. Quotes
“A strong positive mental attitude will create
more miracles than any wonder drug.”
~ Patricia Neal quote
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but
hard to get one single remedy.
~ Chinese Proverb
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the
destruction.
~ Bob Marley

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