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 Manchester teen charged in drug death
A Manchester teen is facing life in prison for providing a high school honors student ...
 Access to prescriptions increases
Getting high can be as easy as opening up the medicine cabinet. For the first ...
 Teen drug use probed
B.C. health researchers hope a new study will help them find out what leads some ...
 Spotlight on teens at risk
Drinking and drug use among teens is getting fresh attention in the Pentucket Regional School ...
 Covert drug tests allow parents to check on teens
Experts disagree onthe sneaking of hair samples from kids If your teenage son or daughter ...
 Prescription for Disaster
Last week, President Bush announced a strategy to crack down on the abuse and diversion ...
 Theft and drug addiction
Chances are you know someone who has had their car or home broken into, or ...
 Drug prevention and education
Helping children and teenagers to "just say no" to drugs becomes a little easier with ...
 ECSTASY DEPLETES BRAIN OF MOOD CHEMICAL
Using the recreational drug Ecstasy reduces the amount of a brain chemical that controls mood, ...
 Lethal new drug causes deadly effects
BRUSSELS – Belgium’s Ministry for Public Health has warned against the dangers of a lethal ...
 Methadone Treatment Investigated
Following the death of a 24-year-old University of Montevallo student from methadone, Alabama authorities have ...
 Meth Lab Problem in West Virginia
It's definitely going to take a team effort to put secret meth labs out of ...
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  • Drug Facts
  • The short-term physiological effects of cocaine include constricted blood vessels; dilated pupils; and increased temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure.
  • Physical addiction is characterized by the presence of tolerance (needing more and more of the drug to achieve the same effect).
  • Research in humans suggests that chronic ecstasy use can lead to changes in brain function, affecting cognitive tasks and memory. Ecstasy can also lead to symptoms of depression several days after its use.
  • Crystal meth effects are similar to those of cocaine but with more power and intensity.
  • Methadone mimics many of the effects of opiates such as heroin.
  • Since about 1990, GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) has been abused in the U.S. for its euphoric, sedative, and anabolic (body building) effects. It is a central nervous system depressant that was widely available over-the-counter in health food stores during the 1980s and until 1992.
  • Research suggests that people who used ecstasy at least 25 times had lowered serotonin levels for as long as a year after quitting.
  • Heroin effects many parts of the human body, including blood vessels that lead to the lungs, liver, kidneys and brain.