Other Commonly Used Drugs

• Alcohol consumption can damage the brain and most body

organs, including the heart, liver, and pancreas.

Alcohol-damaged liver

Prohibition

In 1919 the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States banned the sale or manufacture of alcohol. This period in US history was known as Prohibition;it ended in 1933. Here, government agents

dump illegally made alcohol that they have confiscated.

Amphetamines/

Methamphetamine

•Amphetamines, including methamphetamine, are

powerful stimulants that can produce feelings of

euphoria and alertness.

•Anabolic steroids refer to synthetic

variants of the male sex hormone

testosterone.

Bath Salts

•“Bath salts” refers to an emerging family of

drugs containing one or more synthetic

chemicals related to cathinone, an

amphetamine-like stimulant found naturally in

the khat plant.

• Cocaine is a short-

acting stimulant,

which can lead

users to “binge”—

take the drug

many times in a

single session.

Cocaine has long been known as a drug of

abuse, but it came into particular prominence

in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Cocaine

hydrochloride, a water-soluble salt, is a

dry, white powder that is usually inhaled

through a thin tube inserted into the

nostril. More rarely, cocaine is injected

into a vein. The drug may also be smoked in a

purified form through a water pipe

(“freebasing”) or in a concentrated form

(“crack”) shaped into pellets and placed in

special smoking gear.

• The effects

of hallucinogens—

perception-altering

drugs—are highly

variable and

unreliable, producing

different effects in

different people at

different times.

• Heroin is a

powerful opioid

drug that

produces euphoria

and feelings of

relaxation.

Inhalants

• Inhalants are volatile

substances found in many

household products (such as

oven cleaners, gasoline, spray

paints, and other aerosols) that

induce mind-altering effects.

•Ketamine, Rohypnol®, and GHB have come to

be known as “date rape” drugs because they

can cause someone to lose their memory of

an assault.

•Nicotine is an

addictive stimulant

found in cigarettes

and other forms of

tobacco.

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