Commonly Abused Drugs
Understand the Facts
Understand the Facts
Alcohol
Alcohol is a depressant that affects nearly every part of your body. The damage it does now can impact the rest of your life.
Amphetamines
Amphetamines are commonly abused stimulants which cause addiction that is difficult to treat, causes chronic relapse and may lead to death.
Bath Salts
Though the name may sound harmless, bath salts contain dangerous synthetic stimulants that carry the risk of easy overdose, hallucinations and even death.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a highly addictive drug that can be risky even the first time you use it. Common side effects include increased heart rate and blood pressure, but seizures, cardiac arrest and even death are real dangers.
DXM
When taken as directed, DXM (dextromethorphan) is a safe cold medicine. When abused at higher doses, DXM can be lethal.
Fentanyl
Fentanyl (also called Apache, China Girl, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, Tango and Cash, and TNT) is a powerful synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine but is 100 times more potent. U.S. doctors use it to treat patients with severe pain, such as cancer, and especially after surgery. It is made with a precursor chemical, which comes from China and India only. Illegally made fentanyl is often added to illicit drugs making them cheaper, more powerful, more addictive, and much more dangerous.
GHB
Popular at raves and clubs, with GHB, you run the risk of unconsciousness, seizures, coma and even death.
Hallucinogens
Hallucinogens disrupt the normal functioning of your brain, making it hard to think, communicate and focus on reality. Psychosis, panic attacks and dangerous accidents are all possible risks.
Hashish
Hashish is a potent form of cannabis (marijuana) produced by collecting and compressing trichomes, the most potent material from cannabis plants.
Heroin
Heroin is an opioid drug that is synthesized from morphine and usually appears as a white or brown powder or as a black sticky substance, known as “black tar heroin.”
Ketamine
Ketamine is an animal tranquilizer that can knock you out, and leave you unconscious and vulnerable.
LSD
LSD is one of the strongest hallucinogenic drugs. It can disrupt the normal functioning of your brain, possibly for the short term, or possibly for life.
Marijuana
Marijuana, just like any other drug, can be addictive. It affects the brain’s reward system in the same way as all other drugs of addiction – and the likelihood of addiction increases considerably for those who start young.
MDMA
MDMA has a reputation for being a party drug, but side effects like tremors, muscle cramps and nausea, not to mention anxiety and depression, aren’t much fun. Prolonged use also carries the risk of longer-term problems with memory and learning.
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine (also called meth, crystal, chalk, and ice, among other terms) is an extremely addictive stimulant drug that is chemically similar to amphetamine. It takes the form of a white, odorless, bitter-tasting crystalline powder.
Opioids
Opioids are a class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin as well as powerful pain relievers available legally by prescription.
Rohypnol
Dangerous when taken on its own, and fatally dangerous when combined with alcohol, Rohypnol is horrifyingly infamous for being the “date-rape drug.”
Salvia Divinorum
Salvia divinorum can cause you to hallucinate. Unable to tell the difference between fantasy and reality, it’s a state of mind that always leaves you vulnerable to serious situations or fatal accidents.
Spice/K2
Synthetic marijuana – or spice/K2 – can result in brain alterations similar to the real thing, but with the added danger that many of its chemical components and other ingredients are often unknown.
Steroids
When prescribed by a doctor and used according to instructions, steroids can help treat some medical conditions. But abusing steroids as a short-cut to building muscle or improving athletic performance, has dangerous side effects.
Tobacco
Tobacco is a carrier for the highly addictive drug nicotine. Once your body gets a taste for nicotine, it can quickly become a life-long addiction, with extremely fatal consequences.
Weed Wax
Weed Wax is a THC-rich resin extracted from the marijuana plant and is on the rise. A soft solid with a texture like lip balm it is quite possibly the highest you could ever get from weed. It’s otherwise known as BHO, which stands for Butane hash oil.
