Psychoactive drug

Imagine a mother who just wants to save her son but she has no other choice but to illegally use medical marijuana. This mother actually had this problem when her son was diagnosed with incurable Crohn’s disease. The medications given to this young boy by the doctors had side effects that led to fatigue, weakness, and depression. The depression from these medications led to the boy feeling secluded and not being able to attend school due to his weakness. The prescribed medication was basically a…

Cocaine , one of the most used drugs in the United States and the world. So many things can happen as soon as this horrible drug is used. It doesn't just affect the user but your family and friends. Worse things also happen when the user starts abusing this drug and there is some ways to treat cocaine abuse. Using this horrible drug can end up in so many bad ways. Although cocaine has some positive short term effects , there are far more longer negative effects that can affects your body ,…

Cocaine is one of the most use drugs for teens and middle age people in the entire world. Cocaine is one of the found drugs around the world, it is sell cheap and it comes in many forms as well as looks. About 7.5 million of people use drugs around the world which includes people from the age of fifteen to the age of forty years old. The United states id the second biggest country that the people use drugs. People are pressured to use drugs to fit in, also because it is mentioned on movies and…

Johan Cuevas Yasmine Ouchikh PSY 10200 February 25, 2016 1. The drug that Harry abuses is a hallucinogens. Hallucinogens are drugs that alter the person's consciousness and arouse the senses in different ways. They can create hallucinations and make the person taking the drug very hungry. One effect of a hallucinogen is that it can increase the way the person perceive sounds, making music sound better than how it did before the “high”. Harry is not abusing a depressant because a depressant…

seventeen carbon, twelve hydrogen, one nitrogen, and four oxygen. It comes from the coca plant and is used as a local anesthetic for medical uses, but is more often used as a highly addictive street drug. It has a mood elevating affect by releasing dopamine in the brain, which in turn makes it a highly addictive drug. Cocaine is also referred to as blow, coke, crack, rock, and snow, it has these many different names because of its highly recognizable white powdery makeup. Cocaine is used for…

the body for accepting the drugs and chemicals. as many people across the world are being affected and suffering by this problem they really finds it difficult to get rid of the symptoms caused by marijuana. Cannabis addiction is also similar and it is about the excessive use of the drug. Recovery from cannabis addiction is surely possible provided the person cooperates. In smoking weed, it is found that people suffers only mild withdrawal symptoms compared to other drugs. since a person gets…

Caffeine, the most commonly invoked drug in america. You can get it anywhere and you don’t have to talk to creepy guys at a street corner. In fact, the fda even approved it. Caffeine is so common that most americans take it every day. Even kids are exposed to this drug at a young age. But will this hurt them? Will this hurt their grades, their test scores? In order to figure this out we will need to know the effects of caffeine on the brain, what caffeine is, ways to test kids logical thinking…

life's problems and to satisfy ourselves, some of us go somewhere else to try and cool off and. Some of us take drugs instead. When people are feeling down or the want to have some fun and excitement in their day they use cocaine, a very powerful stimulant type of drug drug. Most people who take the drug don´t know how effectful it can be on the body. They just think cocaine is a hell-of-a-drug to have fun with but there are some things that they would like to find out before using it. Cocaine…

Introduction According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes individuals have been using psychoactive substances since ancient times. The first historical records show that cannabis was used in 4000 B.C. in Central Asia and North West China. The use of the coca leaf, which holds the primary ingredient to make cocaine, was used as early as 3000 B.C in the Andeans Mountain range in South America. One of the oldest uses of psychoactive substances dates back even further. The cultivation…

side effects. In previous years, thanks to technological advances, it has been found that marijuana is beneficial to health in many ways. As such it should be legalized and not placed under wraps. This is because dollars are falling like rain to fight drug wars; this money could be utilized elsewhere for benefiting USA in other fields. Justifying Evaluation…