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NARCOTICS By: Alison Spratt

DESCRIPTION A drug derived from opium or compounds similar to opium. Such drugs are potent pain relievers and can affect mood and behavior. Long-term use of narcotics can lead to dependence and tolerance. Also known as a narcotic analgesic. Narcotics include opium, morphine, codeine, heroin, hydromorphone, meperidine, and methadone. Heroin is most often abused, but others, including cough syrups that contain codeine are also used irresponsibly.

HOW IT ENTERS THE BODY Narcotics can be taken as an injection, inhaled, snorted, swallowed in a pill, or smoked

STREET NAMES Purple Drank - Sipin Roxy - Mud HillBilly Heroin - Narco’s Dover’s Powder - Horse Junk - Black Whack Lean - Joy Plant MPTP - Tango and Cash OXYcontin - Friend Miss Emma - Dollies

EFFECTS They work on the central nervous system to dull the senses They can cause sedation, slurred speech, depressed respiration, nausea, sleepiness, constipation, reduced pain or the inability to feel pain The user feels a sense of euphoria for 30 - 60 minutes and can experience hallucinations or psychosis Physiological effects include reduced anxiety, reduced tension, and happiness but these effects don’t last and become weakened as the user becomes more tolerant

Interesting Facts and Statistics More than ⅓ of all Americans will use narcotics in their life The majority of people who are addicted do not even realize that they have a problem Nearly %10 of Americans are addicted to Narcotics Narcotics account for a quarter of crimes

Medical Uses Narcotics can be used as pain medication, with a director’s care. They block the pain receptors in the brain, which reduces the pain. Narcotics are also used as a sleep inducing pill because of its ability to dull the senses and cause sleepiness.

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