Drugs
“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem.”- Kurt Cobain.
The health effects of drugs
Drugs, both illegal and so-called “legal highs’, have massive effects on your body. They have effects on your brain, altering what you can sense, and they can raise your blood pressure, increase your heart rate, or even give you an irregular heartbeat.
- LSD (acid, blotter, liquid acid, microdot, smilies, tabs, trips)
- Cocaine (coke, charlie, crack, snow, blow, spanky, bingo dust, marching powder, bongo, devils dandruff, nose bomb)
- Amphetamines (speed, fet, base, billy whizz)
- Ketamine (Special K, K, Ket)
- Crystal meth (ice, glass, Chrstine, Tina)
- Mephedrone (Jmeow meow, miaow miaow, MCAT, meph)
- Cannabis (hash, weed, grass, skunk, marijuana, dope, puff, ganja, pot, joint, reefer, kazoo, blunt, zoot)
- GHB (GBH, liquid ecstasy)
- Heroin (Brown, skag, smack, gear, H)
- Poppers (amyl nitrate, butyl nitrate, ram, thrust, liquid gold)
- Amphetamines
- Heroin
- Amphetamines
- Heroin
- Cocaine
- Sniffing solvents such as glue.
- Cannabis, when mixed with tobacco and then smoked.
- Drugs, both illegal and “legal highs”, can have many different effects on your body. Just because some are not illegal does not mean they are safe.
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