1. Alcohol – the king of all drugs with potential for abuse.

Most widely used, socially accepted and

most extensively legalized drug throughout the world.
2. Amphetamines – used medically for weight reducing in obesity, relief of mild depression and
treatment
3. CHEMICAL ABUSE – Is an instance when the use of a chemical has produced a negative or
harmful consequence.
4. Barbiturates – are drugs used for inducing sleep in persons plagued with anxiety, mental stress,
and insomnia.
5. Caffeine – it is present in coffee, tea, chocolate, cola drinks, and some wake-up pills.
6. CHEMICALS – Is any substance taken into the body, which alters the way, the mind and the
bodywork.
7. COCAINE – It is an alkaloid contained in the leaves of “Erythoxylon coca ” a hardy plant cultivated
in Bolivia. The first user of coca leaf were the Incas of Peru. It is a stimulant. A powerful natural
stimulant known to man. Cocaine acts immediately. It is a quick acting drug. Its effects are rapid
from the time of intake. It is indeed “super-speed ”.
8. CODEINE – Is another opium alkaloid, the second to be developed after Morphine. It is used as a
painkiller, but more as a cough reliever.
9. Depressants (Downers)-These are drugs which suppress vital body functions especially those of
the brain or central nervous system with the resulting impairment of judgement, hearing, speech
and muscular coordination.
10. DRUG ADDICTIONS – A state of periodic or chronic (continuous) intoxication (drunk) detrimental
to individual and to the society produced by the repeated consumption of drugs (WHO)
11. DRUG DEPENDENCE – A state of psychic or physical dependence, or both on dangerous drugs,
arising in a person following administration or use of a drug on a periodic or continuous basis.
12. DRUG EXPERIMENTER – One who illegally, wrongfully, or improperly uses any narcotics
substances, marijuana or dangerous drugs as defined not more than a few times for reasons or
curiosity, peer pressure or other similar reasons.
13. DRUG SYNDICATE – It is a network of evil. It is operated and manned by willful criminals who
knowingly traffic in human lives for the money. Large sum of money, they can make in their illegal
and nefarious trade. The set results of their commerce are physical and mental cripples, ruined
lives, even agonizing death.
14. HASHISH – It is the dark brown resin that is collected from the tops of potent Cannabis Sativa. It
is at least five times stronger than crude marijuana.
15. Hashish Oil – Hash oil they appear like concentrated syrup liquid varying in color from clear to
black, they used to smoked mixed with tobacco.
16. HEROIN – It is the third derivative extracted and the most powerful. It has no medical use
because of the high rate of medication. This is the most potent of opium derivatives, five times
stronger than morphine.
17. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) – This drug is the most powerful of the psychedelics obtained
from ergot, a fungus that attacks rye kernels.
18. MARIJUANA – Obtained from an Indian hemp plant known as “Cannabis Sativa ” a strong,
handy ,annual shrub which grows wild in temperature and tropic regions.
19. Mescaline – It is the alkaloid hallucinogen extracted from the peyote cactus and can also be
synthesized in the laboratory.
20. Morning Glory Seeds – The black and brown seeds of the wild tropical morning glory that are
used to produce hallucinations.
21. MORPHINE – It is the second extraction from opium, six times stronger. It was named after
Morpheus the Greek god of dreams stimulating effects.
22. NARCOTICS – Is any drug that produces sleep or stupor and relieves pain due to its depressant
effect on the central nervous system. A term narcotic comes from the Greek word for sleep
“Narkotikos”
23. Nicotine – an active component in tobacco which acts as a powerful stimulant of the central
nervous system.
24. PHYSICALDEPENDENCE – An adaptive state caused by repeated drug use that reveals itself
by development of intense physical symptoms when the drug is stopped (withdrawal syndrome).
25. OPIUM – Obtained from a female poppy plant known as “Papayer Somniferum ”. It comes from
the Greek word which means “juice”. It is the original components of Morphine and Heroin.
26. Paregoric – a tincture of opium in combination with camphor. Commonly used as a household
remedy for diarrhea and abdominal pain.
27. Peyote – Peyote is derived from the surface part of a small gray brown cactus.
28. POLYDRUG ABUSE – Many people who abuse on drug tend to take allsorts of drugs. Some play
chemical “Russian roulettes” by taking everything including unidentified pills.
29. PSYCHOLOGICALDEPENDENCE – An attachment to drug use which arises from a drug ability
to satisfy some emotional or personality need of an individual. (Physical dependence not required
but it does not seem to reinforce psychological dependence)
30. Psilocybin – This hallucinogenic alkaloid from small Mexican mushrooms are used by Mexican
Indians today.
31. REHABILITATION – Is a dynamic process directed towards the changes on the health of the
person to prepare him from his fullest life potentials and capabilities, and making him law-abiding
and productive member of the community without abusing drugs.
32. Seconal – Sudden withdrawal from these drugs is even more dangerous than opiate
33. SHABU – It is Japanese form of drug abuse. It is an amphetamine type of stimulant whose
chemical use name in Methmphetamine.
34. Stimulants (Uppers)- they produce increased mental alertness, wakefulness, reduce hunger, and
provide a feeling of well being.
35. STP – It is a take-off on the motor oil additive. It is a chemical derivative of mescaline claimed to
produce more violent and longer effects than mescaline dose.
36. TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL – (THC) It is the psychoactive agent of marijuana.
37. Tetrehydro Cannabinol – they called THC, they look like soft gelatin capsule and they are used by
taken orally or smoked.
38. TOLERANCE – It is the increasing dosage of drugs to maintain the same effect. This is
dependent is totally or amphetamines, barbiturates, opiates and solvents.
39. Tranquilizers – are drugs that calm and relax and diminish anxiety. They are used in the treatment
of nervous states and some mental disorders without producing sleep.
40. TREATMENT – Is a medical service rendered to a client for the effective management of hit total
conditions related to drug abuse. It deals with the physiological without abusing drugs.
41. Volatile Solvents – gaseous substances popularly known to abusers as “gas”, “teardrops”.
42. WITHDRAWAL PERIOD – From the point of habituation or drug dependence up to the time a
drug dependent is totally or gradually deprived of the drug.