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Drugs will feel good sometimes or make you feel worse, even may put suicide thoughts in your head! Its no joke to take drugs or drink more alcohol than you should.

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Stimulants can cause:

Loss of appetite.

Increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature.

Dilation of pupils.

Disturbed sleep patterns.

Nausea.

Bizarre, erratic, sometimes violent behavior.

Hallucinations, irritability.

Panic and psychosis.

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Stimulants, sometimes called “uppers,” temporarily increase alertness and energy. The most commonly used street drugs that fall into this category are cocaine and amphetamines.

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Drugs are chemicals that affect the body and brain. Different drugs can have different effects. Some effects of drugs include health consequences that are long-lasting and permanent. They can even continue after a person has stopped taking the substance. Side effects are:

A weakened immune system

Heart conditions ranging from abnormal heart rates to heart attacks and collapsed veins and blood vessel infections from injected drugs

Increased strain on the liver, which puts the person at risk of significant liver damage or liver failure

Seizures, stroke, mental confusion and brain damage

Lung disease

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drug abuse is when you take in more than your supposed to, whether its a drug or prescribed medicine, to much of it is really bad for your body.  Repeated drug use can lead to brain changes that challenge an addicted person’s self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.

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Heroin side effects are:

Shortness of breath

Dry mouth

Sudden changes in behavior or actions

Disorientation

Lying or other inappropriate behavior

Avoiding eye contact, or distant field of vision

Increase in slurred, garbled or incoherent speech

Sudden worsening of performance in school or work, including expulsion or loss of jobs

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Heroin is a VERY harmful drug. Heroin is an opined drug made from morphine. Morphine is a natural substance taken from the seed pod of the various opium poppy plants grown in the Southeast and Southwest Asia, Mexico, and Colombia. Heroin can be a white or a brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin. You can smoke, sniff, inject or sort the powder.

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What does drinking alcohol do to your body?

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What does drinking alcohol do to your body?

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Drinking a lot over a long period of time can damage the heart and cause diseases like:

Cardiomyopathy – Stretching and drooping of heart muscle

Arrhythmia – Irregular heart beat

Stroke

High blood pressure

Drinking and drugs also cause dizziness, nausea or extreme dehydration, diarrhea, excessive sweating, heat stroke, and one of the most dangerous side effects are poising or even death.

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Why do people do drugs and drink alcohol?

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Why do people do drugs and drink alcohol?

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People drink and do drug if they are sad, depressed or have a feeling that they don't like and cannot control. Other examples are:

Peer pressure

To be cool/fit in

To feel good

Relax

Get rid of anger

Get rid of depression

To feel happy

To escape from reality

To seem grown up

Relieve boredom

To experiment

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Tobacco causes a hard time breathing, dry yellow skin and wrinkles, bleeding gums or gum disease. Tobacco also causes bad breath and yellow teeth, and less blood and oxygen flows to your muscles.

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Cigars

E-cigarettes

vapes

Hookahs

Water pipes

Smokeless/Chewing Tobacco

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Nicotine can cause liver disease, high blood pressure, chest pain, and diabetes. Nicotine can also cause a stomach ulcer, and asthma.

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Cigarettes

Cigars

Chewing Tobacco/Snuff

Vapes

Nicotine is all in these products.

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inhalants can make your words slur or disordered speech. Inhalants also starve you of oxygen and force the heart to beat more rapidly, other side effects are nose bleeds, nausea,  lose of hearing or smelling, the chemicals slowly break down your lungs and immune system. One other serious side effect is Sniffing Death Syndrome.

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Inhalants are found in many things that we used today, like:

Solvents-  liquids that become gas at room temperature: Remover, felt tip markers, paint thinners, glue, and gasoline.
Aerosols- spray paints, hair and deodorant sprays,
and vegetable oil sprays.
Gases- butane lighters, propane tanks, whipped cream aerosols.