Ritalin effect

This drug is often prescribed to treat attention deficit disorder. It is becoming an illicit 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.

Methamphetamine effect

Known on the street as meth, speed, chalk, ice, crystal, and glass, methamphetamine is an addictive stimulant that strongly activates certain systems in the brain.

LSD effect

While some people use LSD for the sense of enhanced and vivid sensory experience, it can cause paranoia, confusion, anxiety, and panic attacks. Like Ecstasy, the user often blurs reality and fantasy, and has a distorted view of time and distance.

Inhalants effect

Inhalants, such as glue, gasoline, hair spray, and paint thinner, are sniffed. The effect on the brain is almost immediate. And while some vapors leave the body quickly, others will remain for a long time. The fatty tissues protecting the nerve cells in the brain are destroyed by inhalant vapors. This slows down or even stops neural transmissions. Effects of inhalants include diminished ability to learn, remember, and solve problems.

Alcohol effect

Alcohol is no safer than drugs. Alcohol impairs judgment and leads to memory lapses. It can lead to blackouts. It distorts vision, shortens coordination, and in addition to the brain can damage every other organ in the body.

Cocaine effect

Cocaine, both in powder form and as crack, is an extremely addictive stimulant. An addict usually loses interest in many areas of life, including school, sports, family, and friends. Use of cocaine can lead to feelings of paranoia and anxiety. Although often used to enhance sex drive, physical effect of cocaine on the receptors in the brain reduce the ability to feel pleasure (which in turn causes the dependency on the drug).

Heroin effect

Heroin is a highly addictive opiate (like morphine). Brain cells can become dependent (highly addictive) on this drug to the extent that users need it in order to function in their daily routine. While heroin use starts out with a rush of pleasure, it leaves the use in a fog for many hours afterwards. Users soon find that their sole purpose in life is to have more of the drug that their body has become dependant on.

Marijuana effects

The parts of the brain that control emotions, memory, and judgment are affected by marijuana. Smoking it can not only weaken short-term memory, but can block information from making it into long term memory. It has also been shown to weaken problem solving ability.

MOST HARMFUL DRUGS

A graph showing the drugs that are more reciprocating

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advice to be away from drugs


Whenever you are tired, stressed, angered, irritated, follow these steps:
1. Close your eyes and start paying attention your breath.
Feel the air you inhale and the air you exhale. Feel the cold fresh air entering
your nostrils and the warm air that comes out. Count your breathing.
2. Do the counting in reverse way. Say 50, 49, 48…to 1and be aware of your breathing.
3. Place your hand on your abdomen. Feel the expansion of your abdomen, like a balloon, as you inhale and the contractions of your abdomen as you exhale.
4. Feel movement of your diaphragm and your chest as you breathe in and breathe out.
You can practice all the steps or any one of the steps. It can be practiced anywhere, any time, and for any short/ long duration. Even two minutes of concentration on your breathing can give excellent stress relief.