Inhalants

Inhalants are chemicals that are sniffed, and when inhaled the fumes cause a feeling of being drunk. .

Physical Effects:

Nausea, sneezing, coughing, nosebleeds, tiredness, bad breath, loss of appetite, dizziness, double vision, decreased heart rate, and shortness of breath. Losing awareness of ones surroundings, Loss of self control, violent behavior, unconsciousness, heart failure, coma, and sometimes death. Weight loss will occur, salt imbalance, and muscle fatigue after long-term use. Long-term side effects are damage to the nervous system, lungs, kidneys, bone marrow, the fetus of a pregnant women, the body’s immune system, and lack of oxygen in the body will happen to a person using inhalants.

Mental Effects:

Confusion, mood swings, delusions, hallucinations, and overall effect of a persons judgment will be altered.

Marijuana

Cannabis-

·         Marijuana is the common name for the drug made from the Cannabis sativa plant.

Side effects-

·         Marijuana causes you to lose focus on the events around them.

·         A region of the brain that affects short term-memory is the hippocampus this area of the brain has a lot of THC receptors causing loss of short-term memory.

Narcotics

Narcotics are made from opium like drugs.   People abuse them when they are prescribed or not prescribed to themselves. A person will take a narcotic to get a feeling of being able to escape, or relive pain.

Common Drugs in this Classification are:

Opium, Paregoric (made from opium extract)

Heroin (“horse,” “H,” “junk,” “smack,” “dope,” “hard stuff ,“ “brown,” “D”)

Codeine (“school boy”

Morphine (“M,” “hocus,” “white stuff”)

Methadone (“dollies,” “dolls”)

Some synthetic Opiods : Amidone, Meperidine, Demerol, Oxycontin

Forms: Powder, pills, tablets, liquid, soft, tarry, and solid. They can be swallowed, smoked, injected, of sniffed.

Medical Use: They can be used as pain killers, and cough suppressants.

Physical Effects:

A physical dependency is brought upon a person when they use narcotics. Damage to the body and brain can take place. Any women who are pregnant will cause severe health problems for her baby if using narcotics. Breathing problems, nausea, and loss of appetite, dry mouth, dizziness, and having no coordination or just some side effects of narcotics. Death can occur when an overdose takes place, or an infection from the result of sharing needles.

Mental Effects:

Narcotics produce a feeling of euphoria and a sudden “rush”. Someone who uses narcotics will become carless and unaware of their surroundings. The brain will tell a person’s body that they need the drug when the feeling wears off. Aggression may occur when not on the drug, and they are psychologically addicting.