Drug use, or misuse, includes:

Drugs are chemical substances that can change how
your body and mind work. They include prescription
medicines, over-the-counter medicines, alcohol,
tobacco, and illegal drugs.
Reducing or quitting drugs can improve your life in
many ways. It can:
• improve your physical and mental wellbeing
• reduce your risk of permanent damage to
vital organs and death
• improve your relationships with friends and
family
• help you reconnect with your emotions
• increase your energy
• help you sleep better
• improve your appearance
• save you money.
Recovered addicts say that they’ve never felt better
after quitting drugs, although this can take time.
Knowing why you want to quit drugs can help you
to stay motivated during the withdrawal process.
Using illegal substances, such as
• Anabolic steroids
• Club drugs
• Cocaine
• Heroin
• Inhalants
• Marijuana
• Methamphetamines
Misusing prescription medicines, including opioids. This means taking the medicines
in a different way than the health care provider prescribed. This includes
• Taking a medicine that was prescribed for someone else
• Taking a larger dose than you are supposed to
• Using the medicine in a different way than you are supposed to. For
example, instead of swallowing your tablets, you might crush and then
snort or inject them.
• Using the medicine for another purpose, such as getting high
• Misusing over-the-counter medicines, including using them for another
purpose and using them in a different way than you are supposed to
Drug use is dangerous. It can harm your brain and body, sometimes permanently. It
can hurt the people around you, including friends, families, kids, and unborn babies.
Drug use can also lead to addiction.
Addiction the only mental disorder that convinces the afflicted that its
everyone else who is ill, not himself. This is because of addictive denial.
This is not a conscious act. In the grateful addict's new reality, he realizes
that this denial is the unconscious mind's ability to completely block an
addict's conscious awareness of the nature of his addictive behavior, and
personality, replacing it with vivid misconceptions, created to support the
addictive behavior.

Are legal drugs that a non-drug user might try, which
can lead him/her to more dangerous drugs such as
marijuana and shabu. Teenagers who engage in early
smoking & drinking have higher chance of using and
experimenting with dangerous drugs of abuse
Slows down a persons central nervous system (brain, spinal cord,
nerves). Doctors commonly prescribe depressants to help people
who have anger management issues, stressed or tensed.
Depressants relax muscles and nerves. These drugs make patients
feel sleepy and light headed. Examples are: alcohol, barbiturates &
tranquilizers.

Speed up a persons central nervous system. Has the
opposite effect of depressants. Makes a person’s
energy high
Are drugs which relieve pain and induce sleepiness.
These are prescribed to patients with mental
disorders or with patients dealing with severe pain
like cancer. These drugs are illicit and dangerous if
taken. Examples are cocaine, heroin and marijuana.

Drugs which distort reality and facts.
Affects all senses; makes a user feel, hear, see things
that don’t exist in the time being. Came from the
word hallucinate (to perceive illusions)
Examples are: Lysergic Acid diethylamide, psilocybin
(obtained from mushrooms and mescaline
Found in ordinary household chemical products and
anesthetics. Readily available and accessible to
young children. Inhalant toxins are similar to those of
alcohol, the only difference is the foul smell.
Abuse can lead to delusions, brain damage, liver
damage, comatose and death. Examples are acetone,
rugby (solvent), spray paints, cleaning fluids and air
conditioner fluids (Freon).

Created by Carl Sugatan