1. Using Drugs Properly
Drug – non food substance taken into the body that can change the structure or the function of the body or mind
Medicine – drug that is used to treat an illness or relieve pain

2. Read Package label
Directions explain medications purpose and how to use it
Warnings about any side effects and when to ask a doctor before using the medicine
A list of active ingredients
The expiration date, which is the date after which the medicine should not be used

3. Misusing and Abusing Drugs
Takes more than the recommended or prescribed dosage of a medicine or mixes medicines without asking a doctor
Continue to take medicine after it is no longer needed
Stops taking a prescribed medicine sooner than the doctors in instructions indicate

4. Misusing and Abusing Drugs
2 forms of drug abuse
Illegal – Using substances that are illegal, marijuana, cocaine, LSD
Legal drugs – Using a legal drug in a harmful way, painkillers

5. Marijuana Mood altering drug Made from leaves of the HEMP plant
Usually smoked when rolled in cigarette paper, in pipe or mixed with food
Can make you feel relaxed, sad, fearful, and suspicious
Short and Long term effects – PAGE- 303

7. Stimulants Drug that speeds up the bodies functions
Cocaine, crack cocaine
Increases heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure
Most stimulants are illegal
People can become addicted to stimulants

8. Amphetamines Strong stimulant drugs that speed up the nervous system
Come in many forms and can be smoked, inhaled, swallowed or injected
Gives user feeling of energy and makes them stay awake
Page 304 – side effects of amphetamines

9. Amphetamines

10. Cocaine and Crack Cocaine
White powder made for leaves of the coca plant
Inhaled, injected, smoked
Gives a brief feeling of power but quickly replaced by anxiety and depression
First time users run risk of addiction or fatal heart attack

11. Crack cocaine and Cocaine

12. Cocaine and Crack Cocaine
Crack Cocaine – concentrated form of cocaine
When smoked reaches the brain in 10 seconds
Produces feeling of energy and excitement, feeling only lasts about 15 minutes
Then user feels depressed and raves more of the drug

13. Depressants
Drugs that slow down the body’s functions and reactions, including heart and breathing rates
Come in tablet or capsule form and are swallowed
Doctors sometimes prescribe to treat sleeplessness or anxiety
Tranquilizers

14. Depressants

15. Depressants Make the user feel very relaxed
Abusers experience mood swings or depression
If mixed with alcohol can cuase coma or death

16. Other Illegal drugs
Inhalants – substances whose fumes are breathed and produces mind altering sensations (glue, paint gas, spray paint)
Causes nausea, vomiting and brain damage, coma, death

17. Inhalants

18. Other Illegal drugs
Narcotics – Drugs that relieve pain and dull senses
Some are legal but very carefully controlled by doctor
Morphine and codeine, oxycotten

19. Other Illegal drugs
Hallucinogens – drugs that distort moods, thoughts and senses
LSD, PCP
People may become violent, due to imaginary images sounds or distortions of real objects

20. LSD

21. PCP