Drug demand reduction

Drug Demand

ReductionBy: Jesus MarinProgram: Young Marines

What is Drug Demand Reduction?Drug Demand Reduction is a program to keep teens away from drugs and alcohol. This program teaches teens, and adults what drugs are. This will tell you why drugs and alcohol are bad for you, what they do to your body system, and brain. These drugs can harm you, kill you, and people don’t realize what they are doing to them each day. These drugs will control you and they are going to want you to keep drinking alcohol or to keep doing drugs.

What is alcohol?Alcohol is an intoxicated ingredient that is found in beer, wine, and liquor. Alcohol is the number one drink to teen and adults. this drug is most likely to be made of natural gas, oil, or coal. The process is when the yeast breaks down sugar into alcohol. This drug can be very addictive and it would want you to drink more and more until you have problems in your body system.

What does Alcohol do to you?

Alcohol can kill you and hurt you. Drinking a large amount of alcohol can lead to a coma, even death. Alcohol can lead to high blood pressure, which can increase your risk of a heart attack or a stroke. It can also make your heart muscles weak, which would affect your lungs, liver, and other body systems. This can also lead to heart failure.

What does alcohol do to your brain?Alcohol affects your brain by difficulty walking, blurred vision, slurred speech, slow reactions times, and memory loss. The alcohol will control your brain by telling you to do things. This drug will make you get dizzy and make you moving crazy when you already drank lots of beer. It will make you not remember what happened last night and you'll wake up like what happened to me.

What is marijuana?Marijuana is a type of drug that is a plant. This drug can be smoked and it can also be eat. This is the dried flowers and leaves of the cannabis plants. This is an illegal drug in the united states and has been transported here from mexico and other places. This is used for some medical reason, but people probably want to use it to get high.

What does marijuana affect in your body system?

Marijuana affects your brain immediately when you smoke it, sense of perception, and heart rate. This affects your nervous system as a depressant. THC is rapidly absorbed by fatty tissues in various organs. You then feel “high” which can give you feelings. When you take high doses you can possibly experience alutionations. It can also affect your sense of time and your coordination.

What is tobacco?Tobacco is a green, leaf plant that is only grown in warm areas. This can be smoked in a cigarette, pipe, or cigar. It can also be chewed, which is called smokeless tobacco or chewing tobacco. Nicotine is the chemical that makes tobacco addictive or habit forming. The nicotine in the tobacco makes it a type of drug. This drug is also be smokes as Kreteks, clove cigarettes, and bidis.

How does tobacco affect in your body system?

Tobacco affects your brain, mouth, heart, lungs, skin, and your muscles. It affects your brain by giving you headaches and making you feel dizzy. This affects your mouth by staining your teeth and giving you bad breath. It also causes bleeding gums and cancers of the mouth and throat. It affects your heart by causing a heart disease and heart attacks. It affects your lungs by having trouble breathing and having asthma.

What is synthetic marijuana/spice?Synthetic marijuana is a dried plant and chopped up herbs in different colors. The different colors are beige, cream red, and brown. These ingredients are sprayed onto the plant.This is a drug that looks just like marijuana but it is the fake type of marijuana. This drug can be turned into a liquid fast. This is also coated with synthetic cannabinoids. This is a popular brand that is sold today, but they are sold under 500 different names.

What does spice affect in your body system?Spice affects the brain cells. some of the spice will bind more strongly with marijuana to the cell receptors that is affected by THC. when spice is bind with marijuana will make the effects even more stronger than the small effects when you smoke marijuana. The effects are extreme anxiety, confusion, paranoia, and hallucinations This drug makes people got to the ICU, which means intensive care unit.