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Some Drug Facts:

Drugs:

Stimulant drugs such as cocaine, "crack," amphetamines, and caffeine are substances that speed up activity in the brain and spinal cord.

• This, in turn, can cause the heart to beat faster and blood pressure and metabolism to increase.
   
• Stimulants often influence a person to be more talkative and anxious and to experience feelings of exhilaration. Use of cocaine and other stimulants can cause the heart to beat abnormally fast and at an unsteady rate.
   
• Use of these drugs also narrows blood vessels, reducing the flow of blood and oxygen to the heart, which results in "starving" the heart muscle.
   
• Even professional athletes whose bodies are well conditioned have succumbed to cocaine's ability to cause heart failure. Researchers currently have no way to detect who may be more susceptible to these effects.

Hallucinogens are drugs which cause altered states of perception and feeling and which can produce flashbacks.

• They include natural substances, such as mescaline and psilocybin that come from plants (cactus and mushrooms), and chemically manufactured ones, such as LSD and MDMA (Ecstasy).
   
• LSD is manufactured from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a fungus that grows on rye and other grains.
   
• MDMA is a synthetic mind-altering drug with hallucinogenic properties. Although not a true, hallucinogenic in the pharmacological sense, PCP causes many of the same effects as hallucinogens and so is often included with this group of drugs.
   
• Hallucinogens have powerful mind-altering effects: They can change how the brain perceives time, everyday reality, and the surrounding environment.
   
• They affect regions and structures in the brain that are responsible for coordination, thought processes, hearing, and sight.
   
• They can cause people who use them to hear voices, see images, and feel sensations that do not exist.

Methamphetamine is a powerfully addictive stimulant that dramatically affects the central nervous system.

• Methamphetamine is commonly known as "speed," "meth," and "chalk." In its smoked form it is often referred to as "ice," "crystal," "crank," and "glass."
   
• It is a white, odorless, bitter-tasting crystalline powder that easily dissolves in water or alcohol.
   
• The drug was developed early in this century from its parent drug, amphetamine, and was used originally in nasal decongestants and bronchial inhalers.
   
• Methamphetamine's chemical structure is similar to that of amphetamine, but it has more pronounced effects on the central nervous system. Like amphetamine, it causes increased activity, decreased appetite, and a general sense of well-being.
   
• The effects of methamphetamine can last 6 to 8 hours. After the initial "rush," there is typically a state of high agitation that in some individuals can lead to violent behavior.

Indiana Meth Facts

Meth Manufacturing, How do I know if someone is making Meth?

More effects of drug use

Dillsboro Police Teach Prevention with the

too Smart to Start Program

at Dillsboro Elementary School

Photos of Drug Seizures in the Town of Dillsboro

(This is only a select few)

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