1. Ways Drugs Enter the Body

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (3) Smoking
Drugs that are often smoked are tobacco, marijuana, and crack cocaine, heroin, opium, peyote, meth.
Enters bloodstream through lungs

5. (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.

6. (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.
Ointments
Drops
LSD
Hormones
Nicotine

7. Same drug, different form.
Every drug comes in more than one form
Antibiotics- pill, liquid, or injection.
Nicotine-smoked, chewed, transdermal patch, chewing gum.