1. What they are and their effects on the human Body
Illegal Drugs
What they are and their effects on the human Body

2. Dangers of Illegal Drugs
Addiction
Factors in suicides, MV Accidents, and Crimes
Hepatitis B and HIV
Overdose
Lack of Responsible Decisions

3. Why People Begin Using Drugs
Desire To Experiment
Boredom
Solve Personal Problems
Peer Pressure
Media

4. Types of Illegal Drugs Marijuana Smoked or Eaten
Increased appetite, relaxation, loss of short-term memory
Respiratory Infection, impaired learning and memory, panic attack

5. Marijuana
Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray from the cannabis plant.
Marijuana contains more than 400 chemicals, including the main active chemical THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol).
The amount of THC in marijuana determines its strength or potency.
The THC content of marijuana has been increasing since the 1980s.

6. How Long Does Marijuana Stay in the Body?
The THC in marijuana is rapidly absorbed by fatty tissues in various organs throughout the body.
In general, standard urine tests can detect traces (metabolites) of THC several days after use. In heavy users, however, THC metabolites can sometimes be detected for weeks after use stops.

7. Does marijuana use lead to other drugs?
Long-term studies show very few high school students use other illegal drugs without first trying marijuana.
However, many young people who use marijuana do not go on to use other drugs.
Theories: Exposure to the brain, Contact with drug dealers,

8. What Happens if you Smoke Marijuana?
Feel nothing at all when they smoke marijuana.
May feel relaxed or high.
Some experience sudden feelings of anxiety and paranoid thoughts (more likely with stronger varieties of marijuana).

9. What Happens If You Smoke Marijuana?
Regular use of marijuana has also been associated with depression, anxiety, and an amotivational syndrome, which means a loss of drive or ambition, even for previously rewarding activities.
Marijuana also often makes users feel hungry. THE MUNCHIES

10. Short Term Effects Problems with learning and memory;
Distorted perception (sights, sounds, time, touch);
Diminished motor coordination;
Increased heart rate.

11. Activities/behaviors most likely to be affected
Learning: Marijuana's effects on attention and memory make it difficult not only to learn something new, but to do complex tasks that require focus and concentration or the stringing together of a lot of information sequentially.

12. Activities/behaviors most likely to be affected
Sports: Marijuana affects timing, movement, and coordination, which can throw off athletic performance.
Judgment: Marijuana, like most abused substances, can alter judgment and reduce inhibitions. This can lead to risky behaviors that can expose the user to sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

13. How does smoking marijuana affect the lungs?
Someone who smokes marijuana regularly may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers do, such as daily cough, more frequent upper respiratory illnesses, and a greater risk of lung infections like pneumonia.

14. Some Marijuana Facts 1 in 7 teens, report past-month marijuana use.
2009, among marijuana users 12 and older, 4.3 million had a marijuana abuse or addiction problem

15. More Marijuana Facts
1 in 11, of those who use marijuana at least once will become addicted. This rate increases to 16 percent, or about 1 in 6, if you start in your teens, and goes up to percent among daily users.
Marijuana accounts for the largest percentage of admissions: 61 percent of those under age 15 and 56 percent of those 15-19

18. Club Designer Drugs Ecstasy Swallowed or Snorted
Increased awareness of senses,increased energy
Hyperthermia, Rapid or Irregular Heartbeat, Heart Attack, and Death

19. What is Ecstasy?
Slang term for MDMA, short for 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine.
Has effects similar to those of other stimulants.
man-made. chemicals or substances—such as caffeine, dextromethorphan (found in some cough syrups), amphetamines, PCP, or cocaine—are sometimes added to, or substituted for, MDMA in Ecstasy tablets

20. What Are the Common Effects?
MDMA lasts for 3 to 6 hours
Users of Ecstasy might feel very alert, or “hyper,” at first.
Lose a sense of time and experience other changes in perception, such as an enhanced sense of touch.
Anxious and agitated; Sweating or chills;and people may feel faint or dizzy

21. More Common Effects.
Muscle tension, nausea, blurred vision, and increased heart rate and blood pressure.
Forceful clenching of the teeth can occur, and individuals at clubs have been known to chew on pacifiers to relieve some of the tension.

22. More Common Effects
Even if a person takes only one pill, the side effects of MDMA—including feelings of sadness, anxiety, depression, and memory difficulties—can last for several days to a week (or longer in people who use MDMA regularly).

23. Dangers
Dehydrated
Dangerous overheating, called hyperthermia. This, in turn, can lead to serious heart and kidney problems—or, rarely, death.
Risk of seizures

24. Long Term Effects
Memory Loss
Long Term Brain Damage

25. Facts
In 2009, an estimated 760,000 people in the United States aged 12 or older used MDMA in the month prior to being surveyed. Lifetime use increased significantly among individuals aged 12 years or older, from 4.3 percent (10.2 million) in 2002 to 5.7 percent (14.2 million) in 2009;

26. Facts
However, past-year use of ecstasy decreased from 1.3 percent to 1.1 percent during the same period. Approximately 1.1 million Americans used ecstasy for the first time in 2009, which is a significant increase from the 894,000 first-time users reported in 2008.

29. Types of Illegal Drugs
Inhalants
Inhaled
Dizziness, nausea and vomiting, headache
Heart attack, brain damage, coma, death

30. Club Designer Drugs
GHB
Swallowed or Snorted
Nausea and Euphoria
Slowed Breathing, Seizures, and Coma

32. Club Designer Drugs
Ketamine and PCP
Injected,Snorted, or Smoked
Confusion, Numbness, Distortion of Reality
Loss Of Muscle Control and Loss of Breathing

34. Stimulants
Cocaine
Snorted
Increased alertness and energy, restlessness, and anxiety
Aggressive Behavior, Panic

36. Stimulants
Methamphetamine
Smoked, Injected, or Inhaled
Euphoria, Hyperactivity
Permanent brain,kidney, or liver damage.

40. Depressants
Rohypnol
Smoked, Swalled, Injected
Loss of inhibitions, drowsiness, euphoria.
Loss of Consciousness, loss of memory, coma, death

41. Opiates
Heroin
Swallowed, Snorted, Smoked or Injected.
Dreamlike State, Drowsiness.
Spread Disease, Skin Infections

42. Other Opiates
Opium
Morphine and Codeine

43. Hallucinogens
LSD
Swallowed
Illusions, Enhanced Emotions, Outside body experience
Panic, Chronic Mental Disorders

45. Hallucinogens
Mushrooms
Swallowed
Altered perceptions, anxiety, and Panic
Flashbacks, Stomach Pains, Vomiting, and Diarrhea.

46. Risk of Drug Use
Car Accidents
Accidental Injury or Death
Violence or Criminal Activity
Unplanned Pregnancey
STD’s

47. Affects Society
Very Costly to Fight between fighting it on the streets and providing health care to patients without insurance.
Spread of Diseases
Drug related work accidents

48. Quick Fact
in 11 was jailed for drug related crime.
NOW 1 in 4