2. How many drugs do you know?
Task
How many drugs do you know?

3. Now divide these into legal and illegal drugs
How Many Did You Get?
Cannabis
Caffeine
Steroids
Tobacco
‘Legal Highs’
Heroin
Magic Mushrooms
LSD
Prescription Drugs
Cocaine
Alcohol
Meow Meow
Ecstasy
Ketamine
Now divide these into legal and illegal drugs

4. Why do people use drugs? Think, Pair Share your ideas.
Legal or Illegal?
Cannabis
Caffeine
Steroids ??
Tobacco
‘Legal Highs’
Heroin
Magic Mushrooms
LSD
Prescription Drugs
Cocaine
Alcohol
Meow Meow
Ecstasy
Ketamine
Why do people use drugs? Think, Pair Share your ideas.

5. Why People Use Drugs?

6. Can you tell a drug by its appearance?
Aim of this session is to give factual information about illegal and legal drugs
Name that drug!

7. Ecstasy (Pills)

9. MDMA
Leah Betts
Leah Betts was a schoolgirl from Latchingdon in Essex, England, UK. She is notable for the extensive media coverage and moral panic that followed her death several days after her 18th birthday. On 11 November, she took an Ecstasy tablet, and then drank approximately 7 litres of water in a 90 minute period. Four hours later, she collapsed into a coma, from which she did not recover.

10. Pure Ecstasy is a white crystal powder which scientists call MDMA
It usually comes in tablet form.
Highs
you have lots of energy. Sounds, colours & emotions are very intense
Lows
Can cause anxiety, panic attacks and confusion.
Raises you body temperature and can cause your heart to beat faster
Drinking too quickly interferes with your body’s salt balance, which can be as deadly as not drinking enough water.

11. (Brown, Gear ,H, Horse, Skag
Heroin
(Brown, Gear ,H, Horse, Skag
Smack)

13. Rachel Withear She was 21 when she died
Was a student from Herefordshire who died following a heroin overdose. Her death in May 2000 led to a large-scale anti-drugs campaign in Britain, particularly in secondary schools, when her parents allowed a police photograph to be shown publicly – it showed her discoloured body collapsed in the foetal position. The school campaign was centred on a video called Rachel's Story.
She was 21 when she died

14. Looks like
Pure Heroin is a white powder, but owing to the range of substance it’s cult with, street Heroin can be anything from brownish white to brown.
Highs
Heroin gives users a feeling of warmth and well-being, bigger doses can make people sleepy and very relaxed.
It also slows down the way the body works and is a very strong pain-killer.
Lows
Overdoses can lead to coma and even death.
If heroin is taken with other drugs, including alcohol, an overdose is more likely.
There's also a risk of death due to inhaling vomit

15. (Meow Meow, Meph, Bounce, MCAT)
Mephedrone
(Meow Meow, Meph, Bounce, MCAT)

16. Users feel alert, confident, euphoric and talkative. Lows
FACT
A fine off white powder which is snorted like cocaine or wrapped in paper and swallowed. It can be smoked and in some cases people inject.
Highs
Users feel alert, confident, euphoric and talkative.
Lows
Can cause anxiety and paranoia and can overstimulate the nervous system which can cause fits, agitations and hallucinations.
It can also overstimulate the heart and circulation.
It has been linked to a number of deaths in the UK.
Can make you smell of Cats Urine

17. Cocaine (Coke)

19. Is a white powder, which can be snorted, smoked or injected. Highs
FACT
Is a white powder, which can be snorted, smoked or injected.
Highs
Makes you feel wide awake and confident. It can give you a real boost, so you might think that you’re the worlds greatest dancer, flirt or comedian (although you’re not)
Lows
Is very addictive and expensive. Snorting can destroy the inside of your nose and high doses can stop you breathing.
Even young people can have a fit or heart attack after taking too much and people have died from over dose.
Using it regularly can make you feel run down and panicky.

20. Cannabis

23. Legal Highs

25. Drugs Awareness
To discuss the differences between the possession and supply of drugs and know the consequences of both

26. Classes of Drugs Class A Class B Class C Anabolic steroids Crack
Cocaine
Ecstasy (MDMA)
Heroin
Magic Mushroom
LSD
Class B
Speed
Cannabis
Methedrone
Class C
Tranquilises
Some painkillers
Ketamine
Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB)
Anabolic steroids

27. If I get caught Dealing how long will I get in prison?
Class A
If I get caught Dealing how long will I get in prison?
up to life in prison or an unlimited fine (or both) for a Class A drug

28. in prison or an unlimited fine (or both) for a Class A drug
Class A How long will I get in prison for possessing a Class A drug?
up to 7 years
in prison or an unlimited fine (or both) for a Class A drug

29. Class B
If I get caught Dealing how long will I get in prison?
up to 14 years in prison or an unlimited fine (or both) for a Class B drug

30. Class B How long will I get in prison for possessing a Class B drug?
up to 5 years
in prison or an unlimited fine (or both) for a Class B drug

31. How long will I get in prison for possessing a Class C drug?
If I get caught dealing how long will I get in prison?
up to 14 years in prison or an unlimited fine (or both) for a Class C drug
How long will I get in prison for possessing a Class C drug?
up to 2 years
in prison or an unlimited fine (or both) for a Class C drug

32. What did you come up with?
If you are caught and sentenced – what do you think might be the consequences?
Discuss with your partner and feed back to the group – you have 2mins.
What did you come up with?
Here are two examples:
Jobs
Drugs can make a job – or school or college –really hard work.
They can mess up the way you act, how well you can focus, what you remember and how you deal with people. And a drug conviction might stop you getting your dream job or lose the one you have.
Travel
It might stop you from going on holiday to certain countries e.g. The USA