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Legal/Illegal Drugs
Flash cards to help students understand different drugs and their effects.
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Health Care
10th Grade
09/03/2013

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There are lots of ways of taking me...but if you decide to sniff me you’ll need to make sure you have a note handy. Not that it matters how you take me, I’ll still do you some serious damage. I am...
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Cocaine 'Coke, charlie' (A white powder) A strong stimulant.
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If you take me properly I can be soothing. But take too much and I can turn nasty. I am...
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Paracetamol (Tablets)
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I am a mysterious character, and am sometimes known just by my first letter. I come as small tablets. I am...
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Ecstasy 'E' (Pills)
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Many young people have tried me, and lots of older people have tried to give me up, but I am far too addictive for them to resist. I am...
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Nicotine (Found in cigarettes)
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I come in many forms of drink, and am popular especially on Friday nights! Even though I am legal, you shouldn’t drink me and drive as I can be very dangerous. I am...
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Alcohol (By some estimates directly or indirectly accounts for 40000 deaths a year in the UK).
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I have lots of names that show I come from a plant, for example weed, grass and hemp. I am one of the most common drugs in the UK. I am...
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Marijuana 'Weed, Green, The Holy Herb, Mary Jane, Hashish, Skunk' (Looks either like a green leaf, a bud, or a brown resin.
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Lots of people can’t wake up properly in the morning without me! I also come in lots of your favourite fizzy drinks. I am...
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Caffeine (Found in coffee, Coca-Cola, chocolate)
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I grow in the wild, and although I will make you see things, it can be very dangerous if people pick my poisonous cousins instead of me! I am...
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Magic Mushrooms (A Hallucinagen - it profoundly affects your sense, and can cause positive or negative 'trips')
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I can take the form of everyday items like glue and deodorant. But breathe me in and I’ll damage your lungs. I am...
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Solvents (To much of this can cause your wind pipe to glue itself together...not nice.)
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Usually snorted, smoked or injected, I have a reputation for being the most addictive of all drugs. Like all drugs, people's addiction to me can drive them to crime...
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Heroin 'Golden Brown' (Street sold heroin can be very dangerous as it can be full of impurities, someties even rat poison)Usually a white powder that goes a golden brown colour when melted for injection.
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People usually smoke me, sometimes in a glass or ceramic pipe or through silver foil if they don't have one. Incredibly addictive, I am infamous for ruining lives.
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Crack Cocaine (White clump, powder or crystal).
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