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Amphetamine and Cocaine

1. AMPHETAMINE AND COCAINE (STIMULANTS) Reporter CHRISTINE R. FERNANDEZ

2. Amphetamine considered to be a “wonder pills” that helped people stay alert and awake and function temporarily at a level beyond normal. are still prescribed for alleviating mild feelings of depression and relieving fatigue and maintaining alertness for sustained periods of time.

3. 1. Cause and effects of Amphetamine For an individual who exceeds prescribed dosages, consumption of a big amount of amphetamines often results in heightened blood pressure, enlarged pupils, unclear or rapid speech, profuse perspiration, excitability, tremors, confusions, loss of appetite and insomnia. 2. Treatment and outcomes Physiological dependence, and abrupt abstinence commonly result in feelings of weariness and depression. Where brain damage has occurred, residual effects may also include impaired ability to concentrate, learn and remember, with resulting social, economic and personality deterioration.

4. COCAINE Is a plant product obtained from coca leaves and used as surface anesthetic even during the early times. May be taken into the body by sniffing, swallowing, or injecting. A stimulant, inducing sleeplessness, and excitement during the sexual process .

5. LSD ( LYSERGIC AND DIETHYLAMIDE) Most potent of the hallucinogens, the odorless and tasteless drug that can produce intoxication with an amount smaller than a grain of salt.

6. EFFECTS OF LSD Very strong but opposing emotions occurring approximately at the same time, emotions which may not have a cognitive counterpart; A feeling of out control of one’s emotions and thoughts; A feeling of detachment from the real world; A feeling of perceptual sharpness, but at the same time perceptions of the outer world as having an unreal quality; The perception of the world and other people as “friendly” but “suspicious.

7. USE OF LSD FOR IMPROVEMENTS Increased their sensitivity, and made them experience some kind of mystic feeling and better understanding of their place in the world .

8. MARIJUANA Comes from the leaves and flowering tops of the hemp plant, cannabis sativa. Possesses properties of sedative euphoriant and hallucinogens. Users of marijuana experience a dreamy, euphoric state with increased feelings of well –being, heightened perceptual keenness or sharpness, and pleasant relaxation.

9. THE ADVENT OF SHABU SHABU It is crystalline in form and the active element can be any kind of metaphetamine . l ooks very much like alum or “ tawas ”. Users dissolve it in liquid form and take it orally.

10. Devastating Effects of Drugs Drugs can damage man’s most precious attributes: personality, mind, and spirit. Drugs accumulate in fatty sections of the cells and in fatty organs. Drugs can induce in matter of months. Drugs on human cells include botched division, slowed growth and abnormal-sized nuclei in cells, disturbed production of protein.

11. That marijuana, considered not so devastating as other drugs. That recent studies show a relationship between marijuana use and cancer. That the most obvious impairments of drugs are in the area of the organic brain syndrome. That drugs abuse is more rampant than ever, particular among the young.

12. THANK YOU…