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    1. The document discusses different types of drugs including medicines used to treat diseases, recreational drugs taken for their effects, and different categories of drugs like stimulants, depressants, painkillers, and hallucinogens. 2. It provides examples of legal drugs like caffeine, alcohol, and over-the-counter pain relievers as well as illegal drugs like ecstasy, cocaine, cannabis, and heroin. 3. The development of new drugs is a long process that involves testing to ensure drugs are effective and safe before being approved for medical use.

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    1. The document discusses different types of drugs including medicines used to treat diseases, recreational drugs taken for their effects, and different categories of drugs like stimulants, depressants, painkillers, and hallucinogens. 2. It provides examples of legal drugs like caffeine, alcohol, and over-the-counter pain relievers as well as illegal drugs like ecstasy, cocaine, cannabis, and heroin. 3. The development of new drugs is a long process that involves testing to ensure drugs are effective and safe before being approved for medical use.

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    1. The document discusses different types of drugs including medicines used to treat diseases, recreational drugs taken for their effects, and different categories of drugs like stimulants, depressants, painkillers, and hallucinogens. 2. It provides examples of legal drugs like caffeine, alcohol, and over-the-counter pain relievers as well as illegal drugs like ecstasy, cocaine, cannabis, and heroin. 3. The development of new drugs is a long process that involves testing to ensure drugs are effective and safe before being approved for medical use.

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    Drug

    AYYA 8C
    What is drug?
    A drug ia any chemical that affects the
    chemical reactions insiden our cells
    Drug types
    Medicines : Used to treat or prefent disease or pain.
    Eg. antibiotics
    recreational drugs : Drugs that people take because
    they like the effects.

    Legal : Caffein
    Illegal : Ecstacy
    4 groups of drugs

    Stimulants Depressants Painkiller Hallucinogens

    1. Make you feel more alert 1. Help you relax and calm 1. Reduce or prevents pain 1. Make you hallucinate,

    2. stop you feeling tired 2. can make you sleepy (imagine things that are not
    really there)
    legal : paracetamol, ibuprofen
    2. can lead to confusion
    legal: caffeine, nicotine Legal: alcohol, tranquilisers Illegal : heroin

    Illegal : ecstasy, cocaine Illegal : cannabis, heroin Legal : -


    Illegal: cannabis, solvents
    Drug testing
    The development of new drug takes many years because
    drug companies and governments have to be certain
    that they work and are save
    Scientists analyse the plant to find the active ingredient.
    In other cases chemists create a new compound based
    on an existing drug to improve it.

    Once scientists think they have produced a suitable


    compound they have to test it.
    Legal recreational drugs
    Smoking kills Alcohol
    Nicotine is a very addictive drug Alcohol is a depressant drug.
    If they do not get a reguar fix of nicot
    they Suerer withdrawal Symptoms and → alcohel can effect people's
    crave a cigarette. behaviour, some people
    nicotine also affects the circulatory become argumentative,
    system. violent / may become
    This can lead to high blood pressure and unconscious.
    heart the disease.
    A pregnant woman who smokes is putting → alcohol is also an addictive
    her baby of drug
    Illegal drugs
    Cannabis
    it is an addictive east class B Drug.
    Some people who use cannabis hallucinate / develop an irrationalfear.

    Cocaine
    it is a class A drug that is very additive makes People feel temporarily confident and alert.
    it is also an anaesthetic and parinkollen

    Heroin
    Class A drug heroin is the most addictive recreational drug used in the uk Heroin is
    produced from morphine and is twice as potent.
    Thank
    you

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