Heroin:
One of the worst drugs any one could choose to do. Heroin gets you addicted just like morphine does. Your brain cells can become dependent on the drug and it can force the addict to take it before they can go on with his or her day. When heroin is consumed, it gives the addict a rush called pleasure but then leaves you in a so called fog.
Marijuana:
One of the most commonly used drugs in Australia. When consumed marijuana affects the part of the brain that controls emotions, memory, and judgment. Also smoking Marijuana can weaken short term memory and can block out information from making it into the long term memory, so you won’t remember most information you learn while being high.
Alcohol:
No safer then any other drugs, it impairs your judgment and leads to memory lapses, black outs, blurred vision, shortened coordination, and can damage every organ in your body including the brain.
Cocaine:
A very addictive stimulant; cocaine addicts will normally lose interest in many areas of life such as sports, family, school, and friends, Use of cocaine can lead to feelings of paranoia and anxiety. Although often used to increase sex drive, a physical affect of cocaine is it stops the receivers that feel pleasure in the brain, which then causes dependency on the drug.
Inhalants:
Inhalants such as glue, gasoline, hair spray, and paint thinner, are sniffed. The affect of this is almost immediate, and while some vapors leave the body quickly others can stay in for a long period of time. Some affects of inhalants stop the ability to learn, remember, and solve problems.
Ecstasy:
This drug causes the user to become confused by reality and fantasy. Also, it concentrates addicts’ problems making them much worse. Like most drugs, this one impairs memory and can cause paranoia, anxiety, and confusion.
LSD:
While some people use LSD for the sense of an enhanced and vivid sensory experience, it also causes paranoia, confusion, anxiety, and panic attacks. Like Ecstasy, the user often blurs reality and fantasy, and has a distorted view of time and distance.
Steroids:
These drugs are designed to increase athletic performance and to gain muscle mass. Unfortunately, steroids cause you to have frequent mood swings and can permanently ruin your learning and memory abilities. Also this drug can cause a male’s testicles to shrink and breasts to development
Tobacco:
Tobacco is a dangerous drug. Nicotine affects the brain quickly, like other inhalants producing feelings of pleasure. Also it is highly addictive.
Methamphetamine:
Known on the street as meth, speed, chalk, ice, crystal, and glass, methamphetamines are an addictive stimulant that strongly activates certain places in the brain. This drug kills the user by causing heart failure, brain damage, and stroke and it induces extreme, acute psychiatric and psychological symptoms that may lead to suicide or murder.
Ritalin:
This drug is often prescribed to treat attention deficit disorder (A.D.D.). It is becoming an illegal street drug as well. Drug users looking for a high will crush Ritalin into a powder and snort it like cocaine, or inject it like heroin. It then has a much more powerful effect on the body. It causes severe headaches, anxiety, paranoia, and delusions.
