\"The Signs of Designer Drug Abuse."
Also known as "club drugs", designer drugs are created in secret labs by amateur chemists known as "Cookers". Cookers change the molecular structure of illicit and prescription drugs to mimic their pharmacological effects. What they create are the Frankenstein monsters of pharmaceuticals. These drugs are powerful, plentiful and perilous. An example is Fentanyl, a commonly prescribed pharmaceutical drug, which Cookers modify to create pure mayhem, a designer drug eight to one thousand times more potent than the opiate drug heroin.
Designer drugs are used at clubs and raves, underground parties pulsing with techno music, where young people are known to experiment with psychoactive drugs. Cheap designer drugs can be ingested, smoked, snorted and injected. Their growing abuse is a fundamental cause of the rise of admittances to Georgia drug rehab programs.
For the most part, Cookers chemically modify three main drugs into "designer drugs": amphetamine/methamphetamines, PCP and Fentanyl. Their creations stimulate the nervous system within the first one to four minutes with effects lasting from thirty to ninety minutes.
The most usual reactions include excessive stimulation, sensory distortions, a sense of well-being and euphoria. Heavier doses can cause paranoia, hallucinations, violence and otherwise irrational behavior and even death by overdose.
Ketamine and Exstsy are two of the very most popular designer drugs. Ketamine, commonly called "Special K" can be swallowed, snorted or injected in its liquid form (it's used pharmaceutically by veterinarians).
Users take it for both its anesthetic and hallucinogenic qualities. As an anesthetic, a user is unlikely to feel pain. As a result, Ketamine abusers often unwittingly hurt themselves.
As with most anesthetics, eating or drinking before taking Ketamine may cause nausea and vomiting. Reports of Ketamine abuse leading to temporary paralysis likewise exists but fortunately such untoward events are rare.
As a hallucinogen, Ketamine leaves a drug abuser with an altered state of reality. Ketamine further acts to depress the heart rate to the point where an overdose can cause the heart to stop beating all together. Even when the effect is not so dramatic, Ketamine abuse can starve the muscles and brain of the oxygen they need to properly function.
Ecstacy, commonly referred to as X or XTC in Clubs and at Raves is made in secret labs just as Methamphetamines are manufactured, and then are distributed either in capsule or pill form.
Like amphetamines, Ecstacy which is a hallucinogen, stimulates the central nervous system. Marketed as a "feel good drug", those under its influence experience a profound sense of well-being and empathy for other club-goers and profound relaxation. Their anxiety is temporarily eliminated, as well.Ecstasy further curbs appetite and boosts energy which club-goers use to endure their hectic all night parties.
Because designer drugs are created by amateur chemists in makeshift labs, no two doses are the same in chemical structure or potency. The side effects then are unpredictable, if only because a user has no idea of how much drug he's taking. It's not then a question of if, but when, he will experience a harmful reaction from a designer drug.
The common physical side effects a user experiences with designer drugs include: Hypertension, elevated heart rate, dehydration and heat exhaustion, diminished respiration, sweating and chills, blurring of the vision, anorexia, teeth clenching, drooling, impaired speech, nausea and vomiting, uncontrolled tremors, complete paralysis, lasting brain damage, seizures and death.
The common psychological side effects a user experiences with designer drugs include: wakefulness and insomnia, irritability, extreme anxiety, severe emotional sensitivity, irrationality, sadness and depression, confusion, amnesia, hallucinations, fits of rage and violence.
Designer drugs are alluring, their allure heightened by peer pressure and the need to be cool around one's peers. And they are dangerous, their danger heightened by their unpredictability. Protect your kids and loved ones from designer drugs; know the signs of designer drug abuse.
Designer drugs are used at clubs and raves, underground parties pulsing with techno music, where young people are known to experiment with psychoactive drugs. Cheap designer drugs can be ingested, smoked, snorted and injected. Their growing abuse is a fundamental cause of the rise of admittances to Georgia drug rehab programs.
For the most part, Cookers chemically modify three main drugs into "designer drugs": amphetamine/methamphetamines, PCP and Fentanyl. Their creations stimulate the nervous system within the first one to four minutes with effects lasting from thirty to ninety minutes.
The most usual reactions include excessive stimulation, sensory distortions, a sense of well-being and euphoria. Heavier doses can cause paranoia, hallucinations, violence and otherwise irrational behavior and even death by overdose.
Ketamine and Exstsy are two of the very most popular designer drugs. Ketamine, commonly called "Special K" can be swallowed, snorted or injected in its liquid form (it's used pharmaceutically by veterinarians).
Users take it for both its anesthetic and hallucinogenic qualities. As an anesthetic, a user is unlikely to feel pain. As a result, Ketamine abusers often unwittingly hurt themselves.
As with most anesthetics, eating or drinking before taking Ketamine may cause nausea and vomiting. Reports of Ketamine abuse leading to temporary paralysis likewise exists but fortunately such untoward events are rare.
As a hallucinogen, Ketamine leaves a drug abuser with an altered state of reality. Ketamine further acts to depress the heart rate to the point where an overdose can cause the heart to stop beating all together. Even when the effect is not so dramatic, Ketamine abuse can starve the muscles and brain of the oxygen they need to properly function.
Ecstacy, commonly referred to as X or XTC in Clubs and at Raves is made in secret labs just as Methamphetamines are manufactured, and then are distributed either in capsule or pill form.
Like amphetamines, Ecstacy which is a hallucinogen, stimulates the central nervous system. Marketed as a "feel good drug", those under its influence experience a profound sense of well-being and empathy for other club-goers and profound relaxation. Their anxiety is temporarily eliminated, as well.Ecstasy further curbs appetite and boosts energy which club-goers use to endure their hectic all night parties.
Because designer drugs are created by amateur chemists in makeshift labs, no two doses are the same in chemical structure or potency. The side effects then are unpredictable, if only because a user has no idea of how much drug he's taking. It's not then a question of if, but when, he will experience a harmful reaction from a designer drug.
The common physical side effects a user experiences with designer drugs include: Hypertension, elevated heart rate, dehydration and heat exhaustion, diminished respiration, sweating and chills, blurring of the vision, anorexia, teeth clenching, drooling, impaired speech, nausea and vomiting, uncontrolled tremors, complete paralysis, lasting brain damage, seizures and death.
The common psychological side effects a user experiences with designer drugs include: wakefulness and insomnia, irritability, extreme anxiety, severe emotional sensitivity, irrationality, sadness and depression, confusion, amnesia, hallucinations, fits of rage and violence.
Designer drugs are alluring, their allure heightened by peer pressure and the need to be cool around one's peers. And they are dangerous, their danger heightened by their unpredictability. Protect your kids and loved ones from designer drugs; know the signs of designer drug abuse.
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