Always look for the signs!
A ROAD TO... SOMEWHERE?
I Don't Think So!
The word Drug is defined as "any substance other than food that can affect the way your mind and body work." There are hundreds of different drugs, each with its particular effect on the body's nervous system. Narcotics are a series of drugs that affect the mind, causing mental changes. The United States Government will not allow any new drug to be prescribed by a doctor or sold by a pharmacist until the drug has been thoroughly tested and proven to be medically safe. These tests take as long as years before they are approved for use by the public; and even after they have been approved and sold for years, serious side effects may appear and the drug is removed and discarded for any further medical use.
Unstable drugs, referred to on the streets as Crack,
PCP, Ice, LSD, Speed and many others, are made up of several chemical
substances which are made illegally in hideaways without proper
equipment or skills to carefully measure exact proportions - resulting
in a drug that no one knows what the after-effects will be.
FACT: Unstable drugs are responsible for killing thousands
of young people experimenting with drugs each year. Those who escape
death are sometimes confined to a mental institution.
Always look for the signs!
Dramatic Changes in Behavior
Signs of Physical Deterioration
Identification with Drug Culture
Signs of Drugs and Paraphernalia
Dramatic Changes in School Performance
Some of Life's Dangers
We are taught as children to avoid danger. In the our
world there are small creatures like snakes and spiders that if they
bite or sting you, you will die. Over 30,000 people a year die from
snake bite alone. Just the sight of such living things sends a message
of DANGER to the observer and one stays away. There are other
dangers out in the world that take more lives than the attacks totaled
from those living creatures. The sad part is people who suffer from
these killers place them into their own bodies. The end result is the
same. So what is the difference?
For More Information On These Killers
TOBACCO
MARIJUANA |
ALCOHOL
OPIATES |
PHENCYCLIDINE
HALLUCINOGENS |
INHALANTS
CNS STIMULANTS |
CNS DEPRESSANTS
The "Rave" Scene
The First Fatal Second