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What happens to your body when you take Drugs

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What happens to your body when you take Drugs

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Different types of drugs affect your body in different ways, and the effects associated with drugs can vary from person to person. How a drug effects an individual is dependent on a variety of factors including body size, health, the amount and strength of the drug, and whether any other drugs are in the system at the same time. It is important to remember that illegal drugs are not controlled substances, and therefore the quality and strength may differ from one batch to another.

Drugs can have short-term and long-term effects. These effects can be physical and psychological, and can include dependency.

You may act differently, feel differently and think differently if you have taken drugs. And you may struggle to control your actions and thoughts.

You might begin to use drugs without thinking about any harm to your body. You might think drugs won't become a problem because you are only a casual user. The more you take a drug, the more likely you are to build up a tolerance to its effects. This can lead to the need to take larger doses to obtain the effects of the drug. For this reason, evidence suggests that after prolonged use, many drugs can cause dependence. Drug dependence can quickly begin to affect your psychological and physical health, and can also affect your work and social life.

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Drug overdoses can be accidental or intentional. They occur when a person takes more than the medically recommended dose. However, some people may be more sensitive to certain medications so the low (more dangerous) end of a drug may be toxic for them; a dose that is still within the range of acceptable medical use may be too much for their bodies to handle.

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Drug Abuse is the habitual taking of addictive or illegal drugs

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Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person's brain and behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medication. Substances such as alcohol, marijuana and nicotine also are considered drugs. When you're addicted, you may continue using the drug despite the harm it causes.

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Some common side effects

Skin rash or dermatitis

Dizziness

Drowsiness

Dry Mouth

Headache

Nausea

Some serious side effects

Suicidal thoughts

Abnormal heart rhythms

Internal bleeding

Cancer

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A drug is any chemical you take that affects the way your body works. Alcohol, caffeine, aspirin and nicotine are all drugs. A drug must be able to pass from your body into your brain. Once inside your brain, drugs can change the messages your brain cells are sending to each other, and to the rest of your body.

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Recreational drug use is the use of a psychoactive drug to induce an altered state of consciousness for pleasure, by modifying the perceptions, feelings, and emotions of the user. When a psychoactive drug enters the user's body, it induces an intoxicating effect.

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A type of smokeless tobacco made from cured tobacco leaves. It may be sweetened and flavored with licorice and other substances. It comes in the form of loose tobacco leaves, pellets or “bits”. It is placed in the mouth, usually between the cheek and lower lip, and may be chewed. Spit tobacco contains nicotine and many harmful, cancer-causing chemicals.

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Cannabis

Cocaine

Amphetamine

Nitrites, poppers

Ecstasy

LSD

Magic mushrooms

Solventrs

Minor tranquilizers

Heroin

Crack cocaine

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Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them.

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Chewing Tobacco is a type of smokeless tobacco product consumed by placing a portion of the tobacco between the cheeks and gum or upper lip teeth and chewing.

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Marijuana is also known as Cannabis, it is a psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant used for medical or recreational uses.

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Cocaine is also known as "coke", it is a strong stimulant that is mostly used as an recreational drug. It can be snorted, inhaled, or injected into a vein.

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People do drugs because

To fit in

To escape or relax

To relieve boredom

To seem grown up

To rebel

To experiment

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There are cocaine, marijuana, chewing tobacco, tobacco, and spit tobacco.