2. ILLEGAL
DRUGS

3. 1. Why is illegal drug use dangerous?
Damage to brain and body
addiction
major factor in suicide, accidents and crimes
risk of spreading disease through sharing needles
can result in overdose
leads to making irresponsible decisions

4. Escape depression / boredom Enjoyment of risky behavior
2. The reasons people begin using drugs are similar to the reasons they begin to drink or smoke. What are these reasons?
Experiment
Escape depression / boredom
Enjoyment of risky behavior
Belief that drugs solve personal problems
Peer pressure
Media glamorizing drug use

5. Affects function of the brain
3. While there are many different illegal drugs, all illegal drugs have 3 things in common What are these 3 things?
Affects function of the brain
Dangerous to health
Result in drug dependence and addiction

6. 4. What are some of the effects marijuana has on the body?
Slowed thinking
Difficulty paying attention
No sense of time or distance
Loss of short term memory
Shrinks your brain

7. ***VIDEO***
Drug Free World
Video/8:29

8. 5. Can you become dependant on marijuana?
Yes, both physical and psychological dependence can happen

9. 6. Can marijuana use affect your driving? If so, how?
Yes, much like how alcohol affects your driving.
It can slow your reaction time and impair your judgment.

10. J 7. STREET NAMES POT Ganja HERB HEMP WEED DOPE ROACH MARY JANE ASTRO
TEXAS
TEA
MARY JANE
ASTRO
TURF
HEMP
REEFER
HERB
GRASS
Ganja
WEED J
DOPE
ROACH

11. The chemical in cannabis that creates this distortion is known as THC.
WHAT IS MARIJUANA?
Marijuana is a word used to describe the dried flowers, seeds, and leaves of the Indian hemp plant.
Cannabis describes any of the different drugs that come from Indian hemp, including marijuana and hashish.
Hashish is a related form of the drug, made from resins of the Indian hemp plant.
Regardless of the name, this drug is an hallucinogen – a substance which distorts how the mind perceives the world you live in.
The chemical in cannabis that creates this distortion is known as THC.
The cannabis plant, from which marijuana is derived, has over 400 different chemicals.

12. Marijuana and School
Marijuana and school don’t mix. Marijuana makes it harder for users to concentrate, and slows thinking down.
Marijuana damages the user’s memory and things such as simple math problems become extremely difficult.
One of the prevalent effects of marijuana is the decline in school performance.
video./2:07

13. Video/3:16
Certain synthetic compounds deceptively labeled as "bath salts" and synthetic marijuana products (K2 or spice) have been added to Penalty Group 2 of the Texas Controlled Substances Act.
Law Covers: Synthetic Cannabinoids, Synthetic Marijuana, Herbal Potpourri Spice (K2, Spike99, Wicked-X)

14. similar to methamphetamine
Bath salts – effects
similar to methamphetamine
and cocaine.
Video – 5:28

15. 8. What are inhalants? What are 2 legal inhalants used by physicians?
Drugs that are inhaled as vapors
such as
Asthma Inhaler
Laughing Gas

17. INHALANTS WHAT ARE THEY?
SNIFFING
Users may inhale the chemical vapors directly from open containers
Inhalants refers to the vapors from toxic substances which are inhaled to reach a quick high
The chemicals are quickly absorbed through the lungs into the bloodstream and quickly reach the brain and other organs
There are more than 1,000 household products that could be used as inhalants
Produce effects similar to anesthetics, which slow down the body’s functions
The user experiences an initial high and loss of inhibitions, then drowsiness, lightheadedness, and agitation
Because they reach the brain with a faster speed and force than other substances, they can cause irreversible physical and mental damages.
HUFFING
Breathing the fumes from rags soaked in a chemical substances

18. 9. What type of effects might you experience from inhalants?
Hyperactivity
loss of inhibitions
Dizziness
loss of coordination
difficulty speaking and thinking

19. CLICK PICTURE ON RIGHT
***VIDEO***
Teens and Inhalant Abuse
Video/4:21

20. 10. EFFECTS OF INHALANTS SHORT TERM LONG TERM Slurred Speech
Drunk, dizzy, or dazed
Unconsciousness
Severe headaches
DEATH from suffocation
Muscle weakness
Lack of coordination
Depression
Hearing loss
Deaths from heart failure
Serious and sometimes irreversible damage to the heart, liver, kidneys, lungs and brain

21. 11. STREET NAMES Air blast Highball Satan’s Secret Hippie Crack
Shoot the Breeze
Amy
Huff
Snappers
Bolt
Whippets
Whiteout
Toilet Water Oz
Locker Room
Texas Shoe Shine
Pearls

22. Inhalant video – 8:25 (use if time allows)

23. 12. ECSTASY (MDMA) WHAT IS IT?
Ecstasy is a synthetic, psychoactive drug that is chemically similar to the stimulant methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline.
Ecstasy (MDMA) produces feelings of increased energy, euphoria, emotional warmth, and distortions in time, perception, and tactile experiences

24. 13. STREET NAMES
California Sunrise
ADAM
BEANS

25. 14. SHORT TERM EFFECTS FALSE SENSE IMPAIRED JUDGEMENT OF AFFECTION
SLEEP PROBLEMS

26. 15. LONG TERM EFFECTS of ecstacy
(Write 3 down)
Depression
Anxiety
Kidney Failure
Hemorrhaging
Psychosis
Cardiovascular collapse
Convulsions
DEATH
Long lasting brain damage affecting thought and memory
Damage to portions of the brain that regulate critical functions such as learning, sleep and emotion
Video on ecstacy – 9:29 (us if time allows)

27. HEROIN
Public Service Announcement- Click on picture
drugfreeworld.org

28. 16. Highly addictive, illegal drug 17. Most heroin is injected
(like opium and morphine)
is made from the resin of poppy plants.
17. Most heroin is injected
Risks - AIDS or other infections from sharing needles on top of the pain of addiction.
Milky, sap-like opium is first removed from the pod of the poppy flower. This opium is refined to make morphine, then further refined into different forms of heroin.

29. 18.Street names
Video on heroin – 6:14 (use if time allows)

30. DEATH
Sedation; drowsiness
SHORT TERM EFFECTS
BREATHING
SLOWED

31. LONG TERM EFFECTS INFLAMMATION OF THE GUMS 19. COLD SWEATS COMA
LOSS OF MEMORY
DEPRESSION
LONG TERM EFFECTS
Abscesses from use of needles pockmark the body of a 16 year old addict