- Teenagers who are involved in early
smoking and drinking have higher
chance of using and experimenting
with dangerous drugs of abuse.
- They cause various deadly diseases
that lead to death.
- They cause cancer, coma, organ
damage, paralysis, cardiovascular
diseases, and pulmonary diseases.
- They make a person’s energy high,
even higher than the normal
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energy level.
They cause depression and
- are drugs that speed up a
tiredness to the user.
- They cause paranoia, heart attack,
brain stroke, brain damage, kidney
damage, liver damage, coma, and
eventually death.
- It affects all senses and makes a user
see, hear, and feel things that do not
exist in the time being.
- It causes a user to experience
hallucinations, euphoria, nausea, poor
body coordination, memory loss,
slurred speech, increased blood
pressure and heart rate, aggressive
behavior, flashbacks, brain damage,
psychosis, coma, and death.
1. Gateway Drugs
- are legal drugs that anyone can buy
and try, which may lead them to
using illegal drugs like shabu.
4. Stimulant Drugs
person’s central nervous system.
They are opposite depressant
drugs.
6. Hallucinogens
- are drugs that distort reality and
facts because it causes the user
to hallucinate.
2. Depressant Drugs
- are drugs that are prescribed to
stressed and tensed people
because it slows the nervous system
down.
D - These drugs are administered in
R 3. Narcotics
U - are drugs that relieve pain and
induce sleepiness.
G like hepatitis, tetanus and HIV-AIDS
S due to needle sharing.
5. Inhalants
- are drugs found in ordinary
household chemical products
and anesthetics like rugby.
- Depressant drugs can make patients feel
light-headed and sleepy.
- They cause agitation and aggressive
behaviors, depression, cancer, organ
failures, brain stroke, coma, and paralysis.
- Overuse of these drugs can slow body
functions to such a degree as to cause
unconsciousness, respiratory failure, and
death. An overdose may be deliberate
with the aim of committing suicide.
moderation to patients with mental
disorders and those in severe pain
like cancer.
- They are illicit and dangerous if taken.
- They cause development of diseases
- Overdose leads to comatose and
death.
- Inhalant intoxication is like the signs and
symptoms of alcohol intoxication.
- Delusions, brain damage, liver damage, coma,
and even death are the effects of continuous
use and abuse of inhalants.
- They cause loss of hearing, uncontrolled
muscle spasms, brain damage, nerve damage,
bone marrow damage, hallucinations,
euphoria, delusions, foul breath, slurred
speech, nausea and dizziness, and poor
coordination.