Some Drug Facts

Caffeine:

• legal, found in coffee, cola, tea
• mild brain stimulants to make you more alert
• speeds up heart rate
• excessive amounts can led to headaches, hard to sleep
• dependency and withdrawal

Nicotine:

• legal, gateway
• pipes, chewed, snuffed
• causes cancer
• nicotine affects brain and central nervous system
• as addictive as heroin
• nicotine reaches brain in 7-10 seconds
• heart rate goes up
• can release endorphins
• carbon monoxide
• passive intake as bad
• smoking bad for pregnant mother
• smokeless tobacco just as bad

Alcohol

• gateway drug
• damages every organ, most in liver/brain
• alcohol broken down in live at 1 drink/hour
• rest goes to blood, brain
• DUI most amount of deaths in teens
• 1/2 of suicides, homicides, drowning
• leads to sex
• males break down alcohol better, size matters

Marijuana

• cannabis, THC
  
• grows in Mediterranean climate
• looks like dirt/parsley
• more than 400 chemicals
• hash is made from resin, most concentrated
• psychological dependency
• roaches can be resmoked
  
• 4x worse than cigarettes
• heart beats 1.5x faster
• damaged immune systems, hurts births
• reduced indoor activities, irritability, paranoia, loss of ambition

Cocaine

• illegal
• apathy, irritability, depression, nosebleeds
• cocoa plant, Andes mountains
• white powder; smoke, snorted, injected
• high then withdrawal
• dilated pupils, high blood rate
• heart attacks, convulsions, seizures
• crack is most addictive, to brain 8 to 15 seconds

Steroids

• illegal, except when prescribed
• loss of hair, liver cancer, shrunken testicles, impotency, heart attacks, strokes
• injected or orally
• anabolic steroids build muscle but not tendons or ligaments
• more aggressive

Heroine

• most dangerous and most abused
• codium, morphine, heroine are narcotics, which are painkillers, which are from opium