SHOCKing Facts About Drugs

• Alcohol
  • Alcohol is a factor in more than 100,000 deaths each year.
  • Alcohol impairs your vision, coordination, and memory.  If you drink alcohol for a long time, it can damage your brain.

• Cocaine
  • Cocaine increases your chances of a heart attack or stroke.
  • Cocaine can give you asthma, and if you already have asthma, cocaine makes it worse.
  • While on crack, you have an increased chance of injuries from accidents and violent/criminal behavior.
  • Cocaine also gives you headaches, stomachaches, and causes you to loose sleep.
  • Cocaine users often burn off their eyebrows on accident and they also burn their finger tips and other parts of their body when they try to take the drug.

• Heroin
  • Heroin is a narcotic that causes drowsiness, grogginess, and mental confusion.
  • Heroin is most commonly injected into the bloodstream, and when you inject heroin, you risk getting the HIV virus and other diseases.
  • Heroin can give you dry, itchy skin and skin infections.
  • Heroin always gives you stomachaches, and almost always makes you throw up afterwards.
  • You are more likely to have a heart attack or stroke after you have used heroin, even if you only used it ONCE!

  

• Marijuana
  • Marijuana contains over 400 addictive and poisonous chemicals.
  • Marijauna's scientific name is cannabis sativa.
  • Marijuana gives you a dry mouth and throat, increased heart rate, impaired coordination and balance, delayed reaction time, and it diminishes your short term memory.  It also causes you to lose motivation, and increases your risk of diseases like HIV.
  • People who use marijuana a lot tend to have to chest colds, bronchitis, and lung cancer.
  • Smoking one marijuana joint is as bad as smoking five cigarettes.

   
   

• Tobacco/Nicotine
  • Nicotine is found in all tobacco products and they are responsible for over 400,000 deaths in the United States every year.
  • Tobacco can kill you by giving you heart disease, lung cancer, stroke and many other diseases.
  • Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals including tar which is used to make roads.  It also contains cyanide which is rat poison.
  • When you use smoke tobacco, you not only hurt yourself, but you can give people around you lung disease and lung cancer through secondhand smoke.
  • Tobacco can stain your teeth a dark yellow, make you stink of smoke, and burn your finger tips and make them a yellowish color, telling the whole world that you smoke.

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