The Effects of Drug Use.pptVIP

The Effects of Drug Use Ecstasy Ketamine Special K, or K DXM The Faces of Meth The Psychological Effects of Marijuana The risk of brain damage is worse the longer you stay high at any given time; constant moderate-dose use is probably just as damaging as a brief, high-dose use. Reaching the anaesthetic level is exceedingly hard on your brain. In addition to brain damage, these drugs can also trigger psychosis, limbic seizures, temporal lability, depression, and other neurological and psychological diseases much more frequently than other types of drugs. People who have used dissociatives heavily have shown clear evidence of brain damage. … one cannot ignore the fact that most everyone who uses dissociatives both frequently and heavily ends up with some sort of neurological or psychological problem, ranging from impaired memory to a schizophrenia-like syndrome. Many of the impairments correspond exactly to the areas of the brain damaged in lab animals. Ketamine can cause extreme physical and mental problems including delirium and amnesia. It can have irreversible effects on the human motor system, impairing a persons ability to walk and perform simple tasks. Taking Ketamine just one time can cause fatal respiratory problems and severe brain damage.? Erin Roses heart stopped for 18 minutes, leaving her with the mental capacity of a young child, impaired speech and damaged motor skills.? Through months of rehabilitation, she is finally able to walk and talk again.? Ketamine can be mixed with other street drugs, intensifying the dangerous nature of its effects.? Ketamine, which comes in a powder form, can be sprinkled on tobacco or marijuana or mixed with other powerful drugs like LSD or speed Methamphetamines . /designer_drugs.htm Dextromethorphan DXM is a hallucinogen most closely associated with ketamine and PCP. Unlike any other hallucinogen, DXM has different levels of effects, known as “plateaus” with different effects that range from the “