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.