For years, drug abuse was treated as subject to restricted medical and legal areas. Today's theme is one of the most present in the media, know that your approach should be as broad as possible, involving all segments of organized society, it is matter of universal concern. Unfortunately, the massive production of news on this subject is not always accompanied by proper sobriety, even by scientifically necessary. Sensationalism, emotional statements and moralism or distort the facts and present an outlook clouded and prejudiced, which is not conducive to proper objectivity in dealing with specific problem.
SOLVENTS OR INHALANTS
Definition: The word means a solvent capable of dissolving things and inhalants, is any substance that can be inhaled, that is introduced into the body through the nose or mouth suction. As a rule all the solvent is a highly volatile substance, ie, evaporates easily and thus easily inhaled. Another feature of solvents or inhalants is that many (but not all) are flammable. There are a huge number of commercial products such as nail polish, glues, paints, thinners, propellants, gasoline, thinners, varnishes, etc..
Effects on the Brain: The onset of effects after aspiration is very fast - from seconds to minutes at most - and in 15 to 40 minutes away, the user repeats this process for the feelings last longer.
Phase 1: It's called arousal and is what you want because the person becomes euphoric, excited apparently occurring dizziness and hearing and visual disturbances. But it can also appear nausea, sneezing, coughing, salivation and a lot had been red faces can.
2nd Phase: The depression and disorientation.
Phase 3: The depression deepens with marked reduction of the alert, lack of eye coordination (the individual can not fix their eyes on objects), lack of coordination with wobbly gait, depressed reflexes, hallucinations.
Phase 4: Depression late, the individual may lose consciousness, low blood pressure, abnormal dreams, the person may still have outbreaks and convulsions (seizures). This phase is often between those who smell in plastic bags. It is known that the repeated aspiration of the solvent leads to destruction of neurons (brain cells) causing irreversible brain damage.
Toxic Effects: The constant inhalation may cause damage bone marrow, kidney, liver and peripheral nerves that control muscles. In some cases, especially when there is an impurity in the solvent, benzene, even in small quantities, can be decreased production of white and red blood cells by the body.
MARIJUANA
The plant called Cannabis sativa scientifically.
Effects of marijuana: The effects that marijuana has on the physical man is - action on the body or parts of it - and psychic - action on the mind.
Acute physical effects: There are a few: the eyes are red (which in medical parlance is called the conjunctival hyperemia), your mouth gets dry and my heart shoots of 60-80 beats per minute can reach 120-140 or more, called tachycardia.
Acute psychic effects: The psychotropic effects of marijuana depend on the type used, and organic sensitivity of the caster. For some of those effects are a feeling of well-being accompanied by calm and relaxation, no fatigue, laughing. For others the effects are for the dark side: they feel anxiety, they are stunned, fearful and insecure, shaky, with sweating. There are still evident disruption in the ability to calculate the time and space, attention deficit sharply.
Chronic Effects: Using the continuous, multiple body organs are affected, especially the lungs and brain.
MUSHROOMS AND hallucinogenic plants
The use of the mushroom became famous in Mexico, where it was used by the natives in religious rituals.
Jurema: is used for the remaining Indians and caboclos Brazil. Only used in voodoo rituals in cities during New Year's Eve
Peyolt or Mescal: a cactus is also used since ancient times in Central America, in religious rituals. Produces the hallucinogen mescaline called. There is in Brazil.
Caapi and Chacrona: are hallucinogenic plants that are used together in the form of a drink that is consumed in the ritual worship of the Santo Daime and Vegetal Union and various other sects.
Effects on the brain: inducing hallucinations and delusions. Produce very different effects depending on the user.
Effects on the body: the physical symptoms are a few salient, because hallucinogens are primary. May appear dilated pupils, sweating, tachycardia and nausea, the latter more common with the drink of the Santo Daime.
COCAINE
This drug stimulates the central nervous system, one of the most consumed in Brazil. Cocaine is introduced into the body in three ways: the nose (snorted), intravenously (injected) and pulmonary (smoked).
Main symptoms: excitement, increased activity, aggression, delusions in paranoia, marked pallor, pupil dilation, weight loss and nasal congestion, cough and sputum dark.
Effects of substance: Feeling of euphoria and well-being, ideas of grandiosity, irritability, increased attention to external stimuli, impairment in the ability of evaluation and trial. The user starts to speak and move with greater speed and do not feel sleepy, hungry or tired. With increasing dose, panic reactions, paranoia, auditory and tactile hallucinations (hearing voices, feelings of walking through the insect body).
Injuries and diseases commonly associated with: loss of olfactory sensitivity, mucosal atrophy with chronic rhinitis and nasal septum perforation, lung injury with decreased oxygen-carrying capacity in the blood, interstitial fibrosis. The intravenous causes two types of complications, non-infectious and infectious diseases. The non-infectious complications of cocaine occur when impurities and mixed to give much substance are injected. Infectious complications are caused by the common use of contaminated utensils used in the preparation and start of injection, and manipulation of shared needles, contaminated with blood from one individual to another.
Treatment: In severe cases, the patient should be referred to an emergency service, because there is risk of death, and kept under observation. If present paranoia and delusions, neuroleptic medication may be indicated, intramuscularly.
OPIUM, MORPHINE, HEROIN
Main symptoms: Stupor, analgesia, watery eyes, runny nose, pupil at pinhead, drowsiness.
Elements and accessories: white crystalline powder or dark, ampoules, vials, syringes and hypodermic needles, blood stains on clothing, bed sores, wounds, burned fingers, scars and abscesses in the body.
CRACK
The crack is derived from the coca plant, is derived from the mixture of cocaine, baking soda or ammonia and distilled water, resulting in grains that are smoked in pipes.
The emergence of crack occurred in the early 80's, which allowed her smoking was the creation of coca base christened free.
The consumption of crack is higher than that of cocaine, because it is cheaper and its effects last less. Being a stimulant, causes physical dependence, and later death by his terrible action on the central nervous system and heart.
Due to its action on the central nervous system, the crack generates rapid heartbeat, increased blood pressure, dilated pupils, profuse sweating, tremors, excitement, increased physical and mental fitness. The psychological effects are euphoria, a feeling of power and increased self-esteem.
The dependence constitutes a short time in the body. If inhaled along with alcohol, crack cocaine increases heart rate and blood pressure which can lead to lethal results.
