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Depressant & Inhalants

Agitation

Depression

Insomnia

Impaired learning

Sluggishness

Within seconds, the chemicals reach the brain and give the brain messages to other parts of your body that make you high or drunk

When inhaled, the chemicals go into your lungs

Then it gives you the symptoms given

Then affects your neurons in the CNS

Goes into your body and first hits your central nervous system

Glading: inhaling air freshner

Dustin: spraying an aerosol into the nose or mouth

Snorting: inhaling directly from mouth

Ballooning: inhaling a gas from a balloon

Sniffing: inhaling substance directly through nose

Bagging: inhaling substance after it has been sprayed out

Huffing: inhaling from a rag soaked with substance

Regulation

some have restrictions to minors knowing that people abuse it so much for certain things

legal

Subtopic

Some are illegal some are legal

Irritability

Hearing loss

Memory impairment

Muscle weakness

Disorientation

Bone marrow damage

Impaired judgement

Inability to coordinate movement

Death from suffocation

Severe headaches

Hostility

Visual disturbances

addiction

fever

Slurred speech

Dizziness

Fatigue

Confusion

Poor concentration

Low blood pressure

Slow pulse and breathing

Slow brain function

high blood pressure

panic

aniexty

sleep problems

breathing problems

Chronic fatigue

Solvents

Nitrites

Gases

Aerosols

Ethanol

Benzodiazepines

Barbiturates

Depressant drugs

Inhalants

Spray

Fumes

Inhaling

Depressants

Pills

Smoke

Drink

Meth

Concerns

Violent behavior

Severe dental problems

Weight loss

Memory loss

Increased distractibility

Deficits in thinking and motor skills

Changes in brain structure and function

Psychosis

Hallucinations

Addiction

Hyperthermia

Rapid/irregular heartbeat

Increased respiration

Euphoria and rush

Decrease in appetite

Decreased fatigue

Increased attention

How it works

Then stops the transmitting neurons from recycling excess dopamine

raises dopamine levels by more than 10 times

Forcing neurons to release noradrenaline and most of their stored dopamine

How it's used

Pill or ingestion

This was the original way meth was developed

Snorting

You use your nose to snort

Is done by powdered form too

Injecting

injected into bloodstream

powdered form

Smoking

Small glass pipe called a "flute"

Regulations

illegal everywhere and for everyone

possession of meth can cause you to get a felony

Effects

Long term

disordered thinking

paranoia

lethargy

corroded teeth and gums

extreme mood swings

Short term

increases blood pressure

hallucinations

decreases appetite

anxiety

Dry mouth

aggression

Common forms

Crank

to any form (chunks or fine or coarse powder)

Desoxyn

Ice

crystalized smokeable chunk of meth

Crystal

Classification

Stimulant

Elevated mood

Paranoia

Increase/irregular heart beat

Increased alertness

Routes of administration

snorting

smoking

eating/swallowing

injecting