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Illegal and legal drugs By: Sade bright

Meth amphetamine There a three types of meth abusers; low intensity meth abuse, binge meth abuse and high intensity meth abuse, all can be very dangerous with its potent chemicals, like battery acid, red phosphorus, iodine and much more dangerous chemicals. This product is made in a lab by cooks and it his highly explosive, people take this at parties to stay up for jobs, because its cool and people pressure them to do it or because there addicted, this is a highly addictive drugs which can get people hooked after one hit, it destroys lives, and changes there personality, it destroys family's because it becomes your priority and people will do anything even put there life on the line for the next hit, a high that you feel for a few hours than goes away, it fry's the cells in your brain and zombies you out. Turns you into a person you would never have thought to be. Meth can be smoked in a pipe, injected, snorted or swallowed. Which all give you different high effects.

heroin Heroin is an opiate that comes from the plant opium a highly addictive illegal drug called H, smack used by millions of addicts around the world, knowing that if they stop they will go through the most painful withdrawal there body probably cant handle and chances are they can die because there body is dependent on this substance. Heroin extracts morphine in your body like any other opiate. Most heroin is injected and the rest is smoked on foil. The short term effects of heroin is: rush, slowed breathing, clouded mental function, nausea and vomiting, sedation and drowsiness, hypothermia, coma or death, heroin is another drug which destroys lives and families changes your behavior, become passive aggressive, and extremely easy to overdose.

ecstasy Ecstasy is a party drug most people use to stay awake and dance at night clubs or parties. Ecstasy is an illegal drugs which can be laced with mdma, methamphetamine, heroin, lsd and speed of any type made with pill pressers, the cooks put all different sorts of ingredients in these pills to keep people awake, get them moving, and in increases your serotonin In your brain and make you 4 times happier than usual, and once your coming down that affect wears off and all the serotonin is gone and you start getting depressed.

cocaine Cocaine is a powerful stimulant drug made from the leaves of coca it produces short term euphoria, stimulant, talkativeness in addition to potentially dangerous physical effects like raising like raising heart rate and blood pressure. The powdered form of cocaine is either snorted through the nostril which is absorbed through the nasal tissue or dissolved in water and injected in the blood stream.

pain stop Pain stop night time, in other words purple drank, is new to Australia and big in America except American you proper codeine and promethazine were as Australians bottle are in a children's medicine easy to get at the prescription counter without a prescription, there getting strict on it now as people are abusing it and mixing it with soda to get high and cause drowsy effects, it reliefs pain effectively, and emotionally, it makes you drowsy and is very addictive to those who abuse it

methadone Methadone is a opioid medication, which is sometime classified as a narcotic. Methadone reduces withdrawal symptoms in people addicted to heroin or other narcotic drugs without causing the high associated with the drug addiction. Methadone is used as a pain reliever and a part of a detoxification, only available at certified pharmacies. Methadone can slow and stop your breathing. Methadone may cause a life threatening heart rhythm disorder.

Suboxone Suboxone contains a combination of buprenorphine and naloxone. Buprenorphine is an opioid medication. An opioid is sometimes called a narcotic. Naloxone is an special narcotic drug that reverses the effects of other narcotic medicines. Suboxone is used to treat narcotic (opiate) addiction. It is not for use as a pain medication. MISUSE OF NARCOTIC MEDICINE CAN CAUSE ADDICTION, OVERDOSE, OR DEATH, especially in a child or other person using the medicine without a prescription. Suboxone can be very addictive even at the per scripted dose. Suboxone is an opiate receiver and blocker which if u have opiates in your system it can make you throw up repetitively to get it out of your system immediately. Suboxone comes in strip for which you place under your tongue.

clonazepam Clonazepam is in a group of drugs called benzodiazepines. It effects chemicals in the brain that may be unbalanced and cause anxiety. This is normally given to people for seizures, epilepsy and panic disorders, and others that is not listed on the packaging, many people take this like they take Xanax and get high, it comes with four different quarters, mainly used to relieve anxiety but once worn off increases it, also can make you forget a lot of what happen while on this medication. Strictly Sold in the prescription section.

Xanax Xanax (Alprazolam) is a commonly prescribed drug to help alleviate symptoms of anxiety and panic. Xanax belongs to a class of drugs called benzodiazepines, which are central nervous system depressants that work by enhancing the effect of the neurotransmitter "gamma-aminobutyric acid“ common side effects such as being forgetful, changes in pattern and rhythm of speech, clumsiness or unsteadiness, lack of coordination, drowsiness, feeling sad or empty, irritability, relaxed and calm, sleepiness and drowsiness, slurred speech, tiredness, trouble performing routine task, trouble speaking and unsteadiness can occur. Xanax comes in 4 quartes if taken responsibly will relieve anxiety and these symptoms will be mild if taken abusively they will have strongly.