BELL RINGERBELL RINGERDO THE “WARM UP” ON PG. 426.

READ THE “MYTH” AND “FACT” AND THE WRITING QUESTION THAT GOES ALONG WITH BOTH.

CHAPTER17CHAPTER17PREVENTING DRUG ABUSE

DIFFERENCES IN DRUGSDIFFERENCES IN DRUGSMEDICINES: Legal drugs that help the

body fight injury, illness, or disease.

OVER-THE-COUNTER: Medicine that is sold legally in pharmacies and other stores without a doctors prescription.

PRESCRIPTION DRUG: A drug that can only be obtained with a written order from a doctor.

ILLEGAL DRUG: Chemical substance that people of any age may not lawfully manufacture, possess, buy, or sell.

DRUG MISUSE AND ABUSEDRUG MISUSE AND ABUSEDRUG MISUSE: The improper use

of medicines—either prescription or over-the-counter drugs. (ex: taking more than prescribed)

DRUG ABUSE: When a drug is intentionally used improperly or unsafely. (ex: taking pain killers for a “high”)

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DANGERS OF DRUG MISUSE DANGERS OF DRUG MISUSE AND ABUSEAND ABUSE

SIDE EFFECTS: An unwanted physical or mental effect caused by a drug.

TOLERANCE AND DEPENDANCE: Needing more of the drug to feel the effects, and needing the drug to feel normal.

WITHDRAWAL: Nausea, vomiting, headaches, fever, paranoia, panic, seizures, death.

COMMONLY ABUSED DRUGS: COMMONLY ABUSED DRUGS: DEPRESSANTSDEPRESSANTS

BARBITURATES: In small doses can relax a person, in large doses induce sleep.

OPIATES: Any drug made from psychoactive compounds contained in the pods of poppy seed plants. Combined with morphine makes heroin.

CSN DEPRESSANTS: Slows down the activity of the central nervous system.Long- Term: Sleepiness, blood and liver

disease, infections , brain damage

COMMONLY ABUSED DRUGS: COMMONLY ABUSED DRUGS: STIMULANTSSTIMULANTS

STIMULANT: Drug that speeds up activities of the central nervous system.

AMPHETAMINES: Prescription drugs that are sometimes sold illegally as “speed.”

METHAMPHETAMINE: Closely related to amphetamines but more powerful.

COCAINE: Powerful but short-acting. Often snorted or injected directly into blood stream. (Chart on 443)

COMMONLY ABUSED DRUGS: COMMONLY ABUSED DRUGS: HALLUCINOGENSHALLUCINOGENS

HALLUCINOGENS: A drug that distorts perception, thought, and mood.

LSD: Strongest known hallucinogenPSILOCYBIN: Also known as “shrooms”PCP: Formerly used as a painkiller for

large animals. Users may unintentionally injure or kill themselves.

Long-term: brain damage, psychotic behavior, depression, paranoia, heart damage

Club DrugsClub DrugsMDMA (Ecstasy)- Hallucinogen

and stimulant.- Increased HR, BP, Body Temp

Rohypnol- Depressant – decrease BP, HR, causes drowsiness.

GHB- Depressant/Steroid- drowsiness, nausea, headache

Ketamine- Hallucinogen-Special K- increase HR, BP, memory loss

MARIJUANAMARIJUANA**The leaves, stems, and

flowering tops of the hemp plant.

Effects of Marijuana:◦ Distorted perceptions◦ Difficulties with thinking/problem solving◦ Loss of motor coordination◦ Feelings of anxiety or paranoia= Gateway Drug

◦Synthetic Marijuana (spice) (k2)

TOBACCOTOBACCO**Tobacco products are made

from dried, processed leaves of tobacco plants. Tobacco plants naturally produce a chemical called nicotine.

Tobacco users take in nicotine whenever they use cigarettes, cigars, pipes, or smokeless tobacco products.

TOBACCO CONT.TOBACCO CONT.SMOKELESS TOBACCO: Tobacco

that is chewed, placed between the lower lip and teeth, or sniffed through the nose.

**Smokeless tobacco is NOT a healthy alternative to regular tobacco (Smoking)!!

RISKS OF TOBACCO USERISKS OF TOBACCO USECHRONIC BRONCHITIS: Persons

breathing airways are constantly inflamed. Mucus producing cells increase in number and size.

ENPHYSEMA: Disorder in which alveoli in the lungs can no longer function properly

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASECANCER