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Quiz Time

True or False
1. Stimulant is depressant

2. If drug abuser is addicted to drug, they become indepent.

3. Sniffing is also a way of taking drug.

4. Drug can be psychologically addicted.

Circle the wrong answer
5. shorterm effects of drugs are

a) hallucination b) paranoia c) stroke d) Diarrhea

6. People abuse illegal drug because of

a) peer pressure b) to test if it's addictive or not c) for fun d) curiosity

Explain
7. Write down the difference between the drug misuser and recreational drug user.

8. How can stimulants be taken?

9. Write down the name of the seven different classes of drug

10. What would be the alternative activities instead of taking drugs?

Addiction in my life

Usually, I don't do computer games and watch television much. I was used to addicted to television, but I have quit from it few years ago because of my mother. However, currently, I can't stop using internet and SMS. In case of internet, I have to use it for my homework and to chat with my friends. In addition, I always move around with my mobile phone and I am usually bored if I don't do SMS with others. My parents don't like me moving around with the phone in my hand, thus they always try to persuade me to stop using cellphone. I think I can give up SMS if my parents force me to, but not the internet. However, if I really want to quit from using internet and cellphone, I think I can do it by myself. Overall, this project gave me an opportunity to learn how hard is it to combat the drug use. Compare to my case, quit from the drug addiction is easy to give up and because it effects physically and psychologically, it destroys human. I could re-understand the drug from new point of view and it changed my concept about drug.

Movies

Movies about Drug

1.American Gangster

2.Traffic

3.Exit Wounds

How do you help drug abuser?

First, I will try to persuade them by telling them some tragedies that drug brings. However, in my opinion, I think they won't admit the fact that they are addicted and the situation that they are in. Therefore, I would remove all the drugs and make them to admit the fact that they are actually addicted to drug. Then, I will send them for rehab or arrange an appointment with counselor. However, I think the most important think for drug abuser is their will to stop abusing drugs. Thus, I will try my best to change their mind by talking about their family and cheering them up.

Helping drug addicted friend

Step1:
Admit you have a problem and may well be addicted
Step2:
Remove as many drugs as you can from your home, even if they're legal, except prescription ones
Step3:
Every morning when you wake up, say to yourself "I won't take any drugs today". Say it atleast three times
Step4:
Try to substitute your drugs for vitamin tablets or otherthing.
Step5:
Get an elastic band and put the elastic band on your wrist, so that it's comfortable. Keep it on at all times and whenever you feel a desire to take a drug, snap the elastic band against your wrist
Step6:
Whenever you feel you want to take a drug, just stop for a moment. Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and tell yourself you don't want to take the drug
Step7:
Let at least one trusted person know about your addiction and ask them to cheer you up when you feel deperssed



Links:
http://www.stopyouraddiction.com/
http://www.ehow.com/how_2080458_combat-psychological-drug-addiction.html

Affect of Drug to my family and to the community.

If one of my family starts abusing drugs, my family will change to violent. First, my parents will blame each other about the irresponsibillity. In addition, there will be argument between drug abused member and other. These kinds of quarrel can lead to fight and it will break the peace of my family. To deal with the individual, there will be some punishments such as grounding, limiting freedom and corporal punishment. Plus, my parents will arrange an appointment between the doctor or the counselor and send for rehab. This might affect the community. Our neighbors might humiliate our family and destroy the relationship between our family and the neighbors.

My own stress-free and endorphin releasing activities

I usually spend time with my friends to get rid of the stress and to release endorphin. First, after the exam week, I always go to Korean Karaoke to sing. While I am singing, I can scream out loud and free the stress I gained during the exam. Second, to release endorphin, I watch funny movies. Whenever I laugh out loud while I am watching movie, endorphin gets released. Currently, I do the dancing with my friends. It is for the festival but whenever we are stressed out, I practice for the festival. If I see that I am improving, it makes me exciting. Therefore, these are my own stress-free and endorphin releasing activities.

Drug Advertisement

Video clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVLhP9CVyTw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_xnDDBydvo&feature=related

Song

Artist: Haystak Lyrics
Title: My Lyrics Lyrics


CHORUS:

My lyrics reach deep in the cracks and crevices,
Stimulants to some but to others they sedatives.
My lyrics (check check) the honest to god truth,
Cause I ain't truth in the streets then I am in the booth.

How students are caught and the consequences

Student who abuses drugs are caught by the drug test and if the result is positive, student has to take re-test. Also, there will be some students who will meet counselor and tell them about a student who abuses or sells drugs. The consequences, for student who abused drug, would be calling parents, counseling and suspension. However for student who sells drug, the consequences will be the suspension.

School Policy

Every student have to take drug test and if the test result is positive, the student have to take the drug test once a week. If the result is positive again, school will call parents six counseling sessions with outside counselor and suspension will be the final punishment.

Physically or psychologically?

In case of the drug abuser, she is psychologically addicted. She abused the drug to feel some happiness from it, instead from family. She gets rid of the stress she gained from the ignorance by abusing the drug, and she psychologically feels euphoria. However, In case of drug misuser, she is physically addicted. It is because the drug affects physically and make her sleep, not psychologically. Lastly, he gets psychologically addicted from the drug. Stimulant drug makes him to stimulate psychologically and make him to hallucinate. However, usually drug are both physically and psychologically addited.

Imangination

Drug Abuser

She is 17 years old and she's from Cananda. Her favourite food was pizza but she doesn't eat a lot to maintain her weight. She likes shopping and hang around with her friens, and she dislikes fat people and studying. She always take care of herself, so she is very pretty and popular in school. Her friends are all pretty and handsome, and they all hate to study too. They usually hang out at the gym, where it is dark and far from the office. She is very popular in school and she always had a handsome boyfriend. She thinks that she is the most beautiful girl in the school. She wasn't rich but not poor either. However, she has a problem. Her family is totally crazy. Her parents always fight each other and they don't care about their daughter. She always be ignored by them. Therefore she started to abuse drug for euphoria and now she is addicted to drug. She always relies on the drug and always worries about her popularity at school. Thus, most of her grades are F's or D's and most of time she gets detention from teachers because she doens't do the homework.


Drug Misuser

This little Korean girl was only 15 years old and she have died by misusing the drug, narcotic.
She liked to eat, especially cakes and staying alone. However, she hated to be in front of the public and she was scared of night. She wasn't popular at all in school and her friends either. Actually, she didn't have many friends. Her friends were also quiet and they like to stay in library. She didn't like herself and always thought that others are backbiting her. Her family was very normal, she wasn't rich but not poor either and her parents were nice to her. She had trouble and it was sleep-lessness. Therefore, she visited the doctor and get the prescription of a medicine, narcotic. The doctor said her to eat only 2 pills, but she ate more than 2 pills to sleep deeper. As the time goes, she had to rely on the pill, which is the syptom of the addiction, and finally she had to eat more than 20 pills to sleep at night. Thus, this cause the death. The use of the drug affect her school life. The efficacy of the pill wasn't gone during the day, so she couldn't focus on the class. Therefore, it dropped her grade at school.


Recreational Drug User

He is 27 years old and he is African American. His job is DJ and he likes something interesting and something fresh. However, he dislikes boring things, such as reading books. He doesn't have a favourite food, he enjoys eating anything. His friens are cool and funny. He is very popular DJ and he is always busy because of his job. He usually hangs out with his friends at club and he thinks that he is the good mood maker and capable man. His salary is very high, thus he is wealthy and his parents have used drugs for few times. In past, he wasn't famous at all but once he used a drug during the work time and after that day, he suddenly became famous. From that day, he sometime uses the drug whenever he needs some stimulants and euphoria. However he has a risk to be addicted or to loose job after he stops using it.

Punishment for having or selling the drugs

Indonesia
In past, Indonesian government under international pressure added the death penalty as a punishment for those who abuse drugs in their country. However, in present, death penalty is not common in Indonesia. Thus, unless it is serious, people with drug are sent to prison.

Singapore
The punishment in singapore is up to 10 years of imprisonment or S$20,000 fine or both. In case of having drug, most of them are punished by death penalty.

Statistics of the drug

The use of stimulants is quite a lot. White people, especially native american and Alaska native peopel, abuses the stimulants the most, more than 10%. However, number of black people or African American abusing drug is the smallerst in the world. Furthermore, according to the graph, there are much more people who are still abusing the drug than people who have stop using stimulants. Many people from Alaka and America could quit from the drug addiction.

In case of the death rate, generally, male death rate from the drug is much bigger than female. Overall, the death rate from the suicide by drug is smallest, and most of drug users died because of the relation of all drug. However, there are many male who died because of the drug misuse, and in my opinion, this is very distressing reason. According to the graph, the death rate of female suicide by drugs is higher than male. Although the reason of death is different, quite a lot of people are dying from the drug.

Effects

a. short term effects

-Ulcerated nose

-hallucinations

-paranoia

-seizures

-disruption of brain's control of heart and respiration

-Stroke

-fever

-heart failure

b. Long term effects

-AIDS

-hepatitis (from unsterile needles)

-psychological and physical dependency

-death

-delusions

c. Withdrawal effects

-depression

-fatigue

-insomnia

-loss of appetite

d. Price of drug

Prices are various. Between Rp50000 and over Rp1000000

Does this drug has a medical use?

Yes, stimulants have a medical use. There are many types of stimulants, therefore, the medical use of stimulants is also various. Stimulants can be used to relieve mild depression and fatigue. Plus, to treat narcolepsy (a rare disease in which there is an uncontrolled desire to sleep) and to treat hyperkinesis (overactive condition) in children. Lastly, it can be used as local anesthetic (rare).

Brief history of the drug

Stimulants have been used throughout recorded history and in almost all parts of the world. The use of stimulants for medical purposes was popularized by Sigmund Freud in the 1880s, who suggested that it was a miracle drug, with uses ranging from local anesthesia to the treatment of depression, indigestion, asthma, neurosis, syphilis and drug and alcohol addiction.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p65xPzJxHfU

Is this drug stimulant or depressant?

The name of the drug that I am researching about is stimulants, and the name of the drug tells if this drug is a stimulant or depressant. This drug is a stimulant.

Is this drug physically addictive?

Drugs like cocine and amphetamine are addictive and they are part of stimulants. Therefore, stimulant is physically addictive drug. Furthermore, not only physically, it can affect psychologyically too.

How is it taken?

There is many method of taking drugs. In case of stimulants, it can be taken orally in pill form, inhaled nasally, smoked, or injected.

Street name?

Almost every drug has its street name. Cocaine, Amphetamine, Methamphetamine, Methylphenidate and Phenmetrizine are types of stimulants. Stimulant has many different street names and they are...

Bams, Black Beauties, Blackbirds, Cross Tops, Cross Roads, Crosses, Eye Opener, Jolly Beans, Lid Poppers, Poppers, Speed, Thrusters, Uppers, Uppies, Whites, Bernies, Big, Bloke, Big "C", Billie Hoke, Blow, Burese, "C", Charley, Cholly, Cocoa Puffs, Coke, Cola, Corine, Flake, Girl, Gold Dust, Happy Dust, Heaven Dust, Her, Ice, Jam Cecil, Mosquitoes , Nose Candy, Peruvian Marching Powder, Powdered Diamond, School Boy, Snow, Snow Caine, Snow Flake, Stardust, White Mosquitoes , Wire, Bombitas, Businessman's Trip, Crank, Crystal, Meth, Methedrine, Splash, Dexies, Pep Pills, Bennies

What drug?

STIMULANTS

Stimulants are drugs that excite or speed up the central nervous system (CNS). They usually have increased side-effects with increased effectiveness, and the more powerful variants are therefore often illegal drugs or prescription medicines. Stimulants can produce physical and psychological dependence. The most commonly used drugs in this class are caffeine, nicotine, cocaine and amphetamines.

'Seven' classes of drugs

Drug has different class and there are seven different classes. Plus, these seven different types of drugs affect people differently. Thus, drugs may be categorized according to certain shared symptoms or effects. Drugs from each of these categories can affect a person's central nervous system, including a person's ability to safely drive a motor vehicle.

1. Central Nervous System (CNS) Depressants
CNS Depressants slow down the operations of the brain and the body.

2. CNS Stimulants
CNS Stimulants accelerate the heart rate and elevate the blood pressure and "speed-up" or over-stimulate the body.

3. Hallucinogens
Hallucinogens cause the user to perceive things differently than they actually are.

(4) Dissociative Anesthetics
Dissociative Anesthetics includes drugs that inhibit pain by cutting off or dissociating the brain's perception of the pain.

(5) Narcotic Analgesics
A narcotic analgesic relieves pain, induces euphoria and creates mood changes in the user.

(6) Inhalants
Inhalants include a wide variety of breathable substances that produce mind-altering results and effects.

(7) Cannabis
Cannabis is the scientific name for marijuana.

Addiction?

Addiction is a state in which the body relies on a substance for normal functioning and when the substance suddenly stops, it will cause withdrawal, a characteristic set of signs and symptoms. The dependence is so strong that it may seem as if the person is unable to break away from the dependence. However, why do people become addicted to drugs? The reason of drug addiction are the mental, emotional and psychological condition of the people. It is well known that depressed people are commonly addicted to drug. Since drugs provide a release from these feelings, people are addicted to drugs. Plus, particularly for young people, a lack of attachment with your parents may increase the risk of addiction. Furthermore, some drugs, such as heroin and cocaine, more quickly result in physical addiction than do others.

Why do people abuse drugs?

People abuse drugs for many different reasons. Some people use drugs because of peer pressure or to socialize with other friends who abuse drugs. Uneducated people from poor contries may not know the serious tragedies of drug and some may think that the effects of drugs won't affect them. Plus, when some people are stressed and need something to get them past their problems they may take drugs. Some may abuse drugs because of poverty, or isolation from other people. In addition, for thrills or curiosity can be one reason of abusing drugs.

Whar part of brain affected by stimulants?

Do you enjoy drinking coffee?

Caffein is one type of stimulant ,but not very strong. Eating or drinking a large amount Caffeine, which is in coffee, can make you feel anxious, nervous, or energetic. It is because caffeine changes the way your brain works. Stimulants primarily affect the brain's limbic system. The limbic system is a ring-shaped group of structures involved in emotions, instincts, and memory formation. Normally, the limbic system effected to pleasurable experiences by releasing the neurotransmitter dopamine, which creates feelings of pleasure. However, stronger stimulants such as cocaine, or crack can be dangerous.