DRUG GUIDE FOR PARENTS: LEARN THE FACTS TO KEEP YOUR TEEN SAFE

Prescription
Cough Prescription Pain Sedatives and/or Prescription
Alcohol Cocaine/Crack Ecstasy/MDMA Heroin Inhalants Marijuana Methamphetamine Steroids Tobacco
Medicine/DXM Relievers Tranquilizers Stimulants
Whippets, Blunt, Boom, Juice, Rhoids,
Big C, Blow, Dex, Red Devils, Big H, Black Tar, Bagging, Codeine, OxyContin Adderall, Dexedrine, Cancer Sticks,
Street Names / Booze Robo, Triple C, Adam, Bean, E, Dope, Grass, Ice, Chalk, Crank,
(Oxy, O.C.), Percocet Mebaral, Stackers,
Bump, Coke, Nose Dope, Junk, Huffing, Poppers, Hash, Herb, Mary Crystal, Fire, Glass, Ritalin Pumpers, Gym Chew, Cigarettes,
Commercial Tussin, Skittles, Roll, X, XTC (Percs), Vicodin Quaaludes, Xanax,
Candy, Rock, Snow Skunk, Smack Snappers, Jane, Pot, Reefer, Meth, Speed Candy Dip, Fags, Smokes
Syrup (Vike, Vitamin V) Valium
Dusting Skunk, Weed
Paint thinners, A green or gray Multi-colored
Liquid (types White crystalline Branded tablets White to dark glues, nail polish mixture of dried, White or slightly tablets and
Tablets and Tablets and Tablet, liquid or Brown, cut up
include beer, wine, powder, chips, Liquid, pills, (Playboy bunnies, brown powder or remover, whipped yellow crystal-like
Looks Like powder, gel caps cream aerosal, air shredded flowers powder, large capsules capsules; some
capsules skin application leaves
liquor) chunks or white Nike swoosh) tar-like can be in liquid
rocks substance conditioner fluid and leaves of the rock-like chunks
(Freon) and more hemp plant form

Cocaine can be Injected, Smoked, brewed

How It's snorted or Swallowed smoked, Inhaled through into tea or mixed Swallowed, injected, Swallowed or Swallowed or Swallowed, injected
Swallowed,
Smoked or chewed
Alcohol is drunk Swallowed applied to skin or
Used/Abused injected; crack freebased or nose or mouth into foods snorted or smoked injected injected or snorted
injected
can be smoked snorted

Relaxing, not Keeps you Will guarantee a

Keeps you amped Causes a trippy Enhances the A free high, An oral fixation
What Teens Makes a boring
Full-on
A cheap, dangerous and Can keep you A great release of attentive and spot on the
up; you'll be the high with various senses and you'll euphoria, but straight from the and appetite
Have Heard night fun 20-minute high often easier to going for days tension
life of the party plateaus love everyone super risky medicine cabinet focused starting lineup suppressant
get than alcohol
Slows down the Cigarette
Chronic exposure Boys can develop
Impairs reasoning, Can cause
Chronic long-term brain's activity and Taking high doses smoking harms
Can cause heart can produce use, or high dosages, A large single may result in breasts, girls
clouds judgement. memory and when a user stops every organ in
Can cause Can cause severe Chronic heroin significant can develop
Dangerous Long-term heavy attacks, strokes
dehydration, liver users risk death learning
can cause psychotic dose can cause taking them, there dangerously high the body and
and seizures. In abdominal pain, damage to the behavior (including severe respiratory body temperatures facial hair and a
drinking can lead problems, can be a rebound causes coronary
Because to alcoholism and rare cases, extreme nausea, and heart failure by overdose heart, lungs,
hallucinations,
paranoia, delusions, depression that effect, possibly and an irregular deepened voice.
heart disease,
liver damage and even death liver and kidneys. Can cause heart
liver and heart sudden death on
delusions and
hallucinations, violent can lead to death leading to seizures heartbeat. Potential and stroke, as
Can induce attacks and
disease the first use
depersonalization
behavior, insomnia and other harmful for heart attacks or well as many
death and strokes) lethal seizures strokes
consequences forms of cancer

1 in 10 teens has 1 in 7 teens has 1 in 8 teens 1 in 20 teens 1 in 12 teens 1 in 7 teens has 1 in 13 12th graders 1 in 8 teens has 1 in 15 teens
Teen Usage 1 in 2 teens drank 1 in 6 teens has Nearly 1 in 2 teens 1 in 5 teens
abused cocaine or abused cough has abused has abused has abused has abused abused prescription has abused seda- abused Ritalin or has abused
smoked cigarettes
alcohol in the last abused inhalants
(Grades 9-12) year
crack in their medicine in their Ecstasy in their heroin in their
in their lifetime marijuana methamphetamine pain relievers in tives and/or tranquil- Adderall in their steroids in
in the last 30 days
lifetime lifetime lifetime lifetime in their lifetime in their lifetime their lifetime izers in their lifetime lifetime their lifetime

Slurred speech, Teeth clenching, Missing Medicine bottles Slurred speech,

Slurred speech, Track marks on Slowed thinking Nervous physical Lack of appetite, Rapid growth of Smell on clothes
lack of Nervous behavior, chills, sweating, present without shallow breathing,
Signs of loss of arms, slowed household and reaction activity, scabs and increased muscles, opposite and hair,
coordination, restlessness, dehydration, illness, Rx bottles sluggishness,
coordination, and slurred products, a time, impaired open sores, decreased missing, disrupted alertness, sex characteris- yellowing of teeth
Abuse nausea, vomiting, bloody noses, high disorientation, anxiety, unusual speech, drunk, dazed or disorientation,
attention span and tics and extreme and fingers that
energy coordination, appetite, inability to eating and sleeping
hangovers displays of vomiting dizzy appearance lack of
vomiting paranoia sleep energy irritability hold cigarettes
affection patterns coordination
The "high" from Can be addictive. Heroin overdose More than 1000 Using prescription Teens who abuse
common Meth has a high Abusing Secondhand
Being a child of cough medicine is A popular club is a particular sedatives and Many teens abuse steroids before the
products are potential for abuse prescription typical adolescent smoke contributes
an alcoholic Cocaine is one of caused by ingesting drug because of risk on the Contrary to
painkillers is just
tranquilizers with this prescribed
potential and addiction, to more than
Important places children at the most a large amount of its stimulant street, where popular belief,
as dangerous,
alcohol can slow medication to help growth spurt risk
35,000 deaths
greater risk for dextromethorphan properties which the purity of the inhalants that marijuana can be putting children at both the heart and them cram for staying short and
to Know powerfully
can kill on the risk, increasing addictive and related to
developing addictive drugs (DXM), a common allow users to drug cannot be addictive respiration and exams or suppress never reaching
active ingredient dance for long accurately first use or any crime and causing deadly as using possibly lead to their full adult cardiovascular
alcohol problems their appetite
periods of time known time thereafter environmental harm heroin death height disease

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Sources: Partnership Attitude Tracking Study, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Monitoring the Future, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. 2014 Partnership for Drug-Free Kids