1. Caution: Some slides are graphic...

2. Drugs Are Bad! Why?

3. Drugs are bad-that includes pot. Why?

4. drugs are bad- truth about pot Evidence is mounting that regular marijuana use increases the chance that a teenager will develop psychosis, a pattern of unusual thoughts or perceptions, such as believing the television is transmitting secret messages. It also increases the risk of developing schizophrenia, a disabling brain disorder that not only causes psychosis, but also problems concentrating and loss of emotional expression. In one recent study that followed nearly 2,000 teenagers as they became young adults, young people who smoked marijuana at least five times were twice as likely to have developed psychosis over the next 10 years as those who didn’t smoke pot.

5. Pot changes who you are... Teens Use Corpse Head As Bong. Texas Teens Smoked Marijuana Out of Skull This is definitely the sickest story we've come across. You're not going to believe this one. Three teenagers in Houston, Texas admit to authorities that they used a human head as a bong to smoke marijuana. The teens visited a graveyard and dug up a body of an 11 year-old boy who died in 1921. It's not clear whether the teens decapitated the head themselves or if they found it like that, but they have all confessed to smoking marijuana out of the boy's head. or who you could have been...

8. drugs are bad- that includes "E" Girl, 14, dies from ecstasy overdose

9. Ecstasy is not safe This girl died minutes before this picture was taken. She lost her fight for life 36 hours after taking two high strength ecstasy tablets. This picture was taken at the request of her parents to publicize the dangers of taking ecstasy.

10. From fun to none... Ecstasy kills Within hours, she was in convulsions and had to be rushed to the hospital. There, she lapsed into a coma and her body temperature rose quickly, not stopping until it reached 108 degrees. "She was bleeding everywhere," says her mother. "Her blood cells were just erupting. Her intestines were bleeding; her stomach was bleeding. She was bleeding from the mouth.

11. Date Rape Drug- dangerously out of it

12. Date Rape Drug – creepy...

13. Ecstasy Death – Could you be held responsible if you were there? http://friendsdontletfriendsdie.com/statenews/Washington/statenewsarticles.shtml

14. Drugs are bad- How about meth?

15. Meth is just gross- why waste $ on braces if you're going to do this?

16. Meth – acne is nothing compared to this...

17. Cocaine – yuk! What is cocaine levamisole toxicity? It occurs when an individual snorts or smokes cocaine contaminated with levamisole. Levamisole is a veterinary drug used to deworm livestock that has become popular among cocaine dealers as a cutting agent because it is inexpensive and easy to acquire. The levamisole in the cocaine causes inflammation of blood vessels (vasculitis), manifested in the skin with black-purple patches of the cheeks, ears, and other locations on the body. The purple patches generally progress to necrosis, or death, of the skin cells.

18. Cocaine – double yuk!

19. Narcotics

20. Narcotics – you're out of it (in more ways than 1)

21. drugs are bad

22. Drugs are bad-Heroin: the true story

23. drugs are bad

24. Don't Do Drugs!!!!

25. By staying drug free what kind of life could you have?

26. To teach the anti-drug message to teens, check out these lessons: DRUG UNIT: 3-Weeks of Plans *** http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/DRUG-UNIT-FOR-HEALTH-CLASS-93-Slide-PwrPt-How-Body-is-Affected INTERVENTION: USING INTERVENTION T.V. SHOW FOR A DRUG HEALTH CLASS LESSON http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Intervention-Using-Intervention-TV-Show-for-a-Health-Drug-Lesson ALCOHOL REFUSAL ROLE-PLAYS http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alcohol-Refusal-Skills-Health-Lesson-PwrPt-Role-plays-Worksheets MEDIA LITERACY: LEARNING THE DANGERS OF TOBACCO THROUGH AD APPEALS http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Media-Literacy-Learning-the-Dangers-of-Tobacco-Through-Ad-Appeals QUIT SMOKING BROCHURES LESSON: POWERPOINT WITH 8- PAGE RESEARCH SHEET http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Quit-Smoking-Brochures-Lesson-PowerPoint-w-8-page-Research-Sheets