1. Drugs

2. Controlled Substance:
Drugs: any chemical substance that changes a person’s physical or psychological state
Medicine:
A drug that is used to cure, prevent, or treat pain, disease or illness.
Controlled Substance:
drugs that are used illegally without a prescription. Also know as illicit drugs

3. Drug Abuse Addiction: uncontrolled use of a drug
Physical dependence: body’s chemical or physical need for a drug
Psychological dependence: person’s emotional or mental need for a drug

4. 5 classifications of drugs
Stimulants
Depressants
Hallucinogens
Narcotics
Inhalants

5. Stimulants Any drug that increases the body’s activity
Examples: Nicotine, crack, cocaine, methamphetamines, Ecstasy**

6. Depressants Any drug that decreases the activity in the body.
Examples: Alcohol, tranquilizers, barbiturates, rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB, ketamine,

7. Narcotics (opiates)
Drugs that reduce the sensation of pain and are highly addictive.
Examples: heroin, morphine, codeine, oxycodone, opium, methadone.
Euphoria: physical or mental sense of well being. Very brief feeling.

8. Hallucinogens
Any drug that causes a person to hallucinate. Meaning to see or hear things that are not actually present.
Examples: LSD (acid), PCP (angel dust), Pycilocybin (mushrooms), Marijuana
Flashback: an event in which a hallucinogen’s effects happen again long after the drug was originally taken. Can occur day, moths, even years later

9. Inhalants
Drugs that are inhaled and absorbed into the bloodstream and lungs.
Examples: Freon, nitrous oxide, glue, gasoline, aerosol sprays
2 ways these products are used
Huffing – breathing vapors from a soaked rag
Bagging – breathing vapors from a bag

10. Designer drugs Drugs that are chemically altered
Examples: Ecstasy, GHB, Ketamine

11. Gateway drugs
Drugs that are usually the first that teen experiment with such as tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana and later lead to the use of a variety of other drugs such as cocaine, LSD, or heroin.

12. Gateway drugs continued
Active chemical in marijuana is THC
Comes from a cannabis plant
Causes similar health issues as cigarettes such as lung cancer and emphysema

13. 4 ways drugs can be administered
Oral ingestion – swallowing liquids, pills, etc.
Injection – using a needle
Inhalation – snorting, smoking, or inhaling
Absorption – through the skin, such as a cream, liquid, or nicotine in chewing gum

14. Getting Help
Intervention: gathering of people who attempt to help someone see help for an addiction.
Detoxification: process of ridding the body of all traces of drugs
Withdrawal: uncomfortable physical and psychological symptoms produced when a person who is physically dependent on drugs stops using drugs