Drugs by Chloe https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur Chloe Gullo Period 8 en-us 2018-12-19 18:28:00 UTC 2019-01-10 19:56:04 UTC hello@padlet.com cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/315973511
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]]> 2018-12-19 18:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/315973511 Marijuana cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/315974637 Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug used in the United States. It is very wide spread with young people. Marijuana is from the Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica plant. This plant contains a mind altering chemical called THC and other similar compounds. Marijuana is smoked or swallowed.]]> 2018-12-19 18:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/315974637 Heroin cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/315979624 Heroin is a opioid drug made from morphine. Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance also known as black tar heroin. Heroin can be injected, sniff, snorted, or smoked. Some people even mix heroin with crack cocaine which is called speedballing.]]> 2018-12-19 18:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/315979624 Cocaine cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316012786 Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant drug made from the leaves of the coca plant native in South America. Some health cares use it for some surgeries, recreational cocaine use is illegal. As a street drug cocaine looks like a fine, white, crystal powder. Street dealers often mix it with things like cornstarch, talcum powder, or flour to increase profits. They may also mix it with other drugs such as the stimulant amphetamine, or synthetic opioids.]]> 2018-12-19 20:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316012786 Addiction Video cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316013295 This video will be how you feel when you use drugs. When you use drugs you are harming yourself in the worst way imaginable you are also slowly killing yourself. This video shows what you will feel like when you use drugs and what will happen after you use the drug. the out come is not a good one. :( ]]> 2018-12-19 20:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316013295 MDMA (Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316016329 MDMA is is a synthetic drug that alters mood and perception. It is chemically similar to both stimulants and hallucinogens, producing feelings of increased energy, pleasure, emotional warmth, and distorted sensory and time perception. MDMA is also a club drug.]]> 2018-12-19 20:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316016329 Stimulents cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029327 Stimulants make people more alert, increase their attention, and raise their blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing. ]]> 2018-12-19 21:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029327 Club Drugs cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029356 Club drugs tend to be used by teenagers and young adults at bars, nightclubs, concerts, and parties.]]> 2018-12-19 21:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029356 Opioids cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029472 Opioids of the most powerful and addictive substances known to man, Opioids are one of the biggest challenges facing America today.]]> 2018-12-19 21:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029472 Cannabinoids cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029576 Cannabinoids are the most widely abused drugs in the world after alcohol. These drugs are gaining legal acceptance, but are still dangerous.


]]> 2018-12-19 21:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029576 Dissociative Drugs cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029688 Dissociative drugs are a class of hallucinogen and are known for altering perceptions of sight, sound and connections with one’s surroundings. When taken it generates feelings of separation, or dissociation, from the environment and self. ]]> 2018-12-19 21:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029688 Hallucinogens cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029849 Hallucinogens are a diverse group of drugs that alter perception, thoughts, and feelings. They cause hallucinations, or sensations and images that seem real though they are not. Hallucinogens can be found in some plants and mushrooms (or their extracts) or can be human-made. ]]> 2018-12-19 21:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316029849 People before and After Using Drugs cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316249364 Abusing drugs is very harmful for the body. Here are some of the things that will happen when you abuse these drugs:
  • Tobacco addiction increases risk of lung and heart disease, as well as premature aging of the skin.
  • Inhalants spread toxic chemicals throughout the body, and can cause blackouts and hearing loss as well as liver,kidney, and bone-marrow damage.
  • Cocaine has been linked to stroke and heart attack, and increased vulnerability to infection.
  • Drug abuse is linked to the top U.S. medical problems, including heart disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS, and mental illness.

Drug abuse might affect an existing mental disorder or result in one. More than half of those who are addicted to drugs have also had some form of mental illness either at the same time as their addiction or at some other point in their lives. This is probably not due to chance. Drugs affect many of the same brain systems that are responsible for mental disorders. There may also be common genetic and environmental causes of both. What we know is that long-lasting changes in the brain caused by chronic drug abuse may lead to depression, aggression, paranoia, and hallucinations.
]]> 2018-12-20 18:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/316249364 Depressant Drugs cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/317293460 These drugs come in multicolored tablets and capsules or in liquid form. They are drugs that are used as sedatives and sleeping pills. The short term effects of these drugs are slow brain function, slowed pulse and breathing, lowered blood pressure, poor concentration, confusion, fatigue, dizziness, slurred speech, feverish, sluggish, visual disturbances, dilated pupils disorientation, lack of coordination, depression, difficulty or inability to urinate, and addiction.]]> 2019-01-03 18:20:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/317293460 Addiction cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/317295924 Addiction is the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.


]]> 2019-01-03 18:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/317295924 Inhalants cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/317296581 Inhalants refers to the vapors from toxic substances which are inhaled to reach a quick high. Of more than 1,000 household and other common products that could be abused as inhalants.
Most of these produce effects which slow down the body’s functions. After an initial high and loss of inhibition comes drowsiness, light-headedness, and agitation.

]]> 2019-01-03 18:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/317296581 Methamphetamine cgullo https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/317508938 Methamphetamine is a stimulant drug usually used as a white, bitter-tasting powder or a pill. Crystal methamphetamine is a form of the drug that looks like glass fragments or shiny, bluish-white rocks. It is chemically similar to amphetamine.]]> 2019-01-04 18:30:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cgullo/kaqkrhlo0gur/wish/317508938