Drugs that temporarily increase a person’s energy and alertness.

Drug use, abuse, or addiction can destroy your dreams. Illegal drug use can damage your body.

Alcohol causes short term effects like dehydration, your body to lose heat, your heart and liver to work harder, and alcohol irritates your mouth, throat, esophagus, and stomach.

Alcoholism can cause family members to feel guilty and cause them to have to protect the alcoholic to avoid alcohol and negative consequences.

Tobacco increases heart rate, blood pressure, a person’s breathing rate, blood-sugar levels, and it stimulates the vomit reflex and the brain reward system.

Stimulants include caffeine, nicotine, methylphenidate, amphetamines, cocaine and crack cocaine.

Drugs can lead to car wrecks, injuries, death, violence, unplanned pregnancy, and STDs.

Alcohol can cause long term effects like anemia, damage to the heart, enlargement of the heart, irregular heartbeat, and high blood pressure.

Alcohol abuse can lead to car wrecks, drowning, murders, destruction of families, and much more.

Nicotine can lead to addiction, heart diseases and artery diseases. Tobacco smoke can lead to Bronchitis and Emphysema, and cigarettes can cause cancer.

Drugs that cause relaxation, sleepiness, slow a person’s breathing, and reduce brain activity. Depressants are highly addictive when misused and can result in death from an overdose.

Drug abuse can cause families to lose trust with the misuser. Teens may start to steal money from their family members for drugs and start to break house rules. Teens also may start to skip out on family activities.

The stages of alcoholism are problem drinking, tolerance, dependence, and alcoholism.

Alcoholism takes away money and resources from society. Drinkers get sick more often than nondrinkers and miss more days of school or work. Money is spent to help treat their illnesses and alcohol abuse.

Chemicals from tobacco affect babies the same as it does the mother. Tobacco can cause miscarriages during pregnancy, premature birth, development difficulties on a fetus’ brain, and infants can get sudden infant death syndrome.

Drugs that are used as medicine but are highly addictive. Opiates are from the poppy plant and are used as pain relievers, sedatives, and anesthetics.

Illegal drugs and drug misuse has affected our society because around 90 million Americans have used illegal drugs.

A BAC is your blood alcohol concentration. Driving with a BAC of 0.08% or more will have the drunk driver arrested.

Alcoholism leads the individual to unpredictable behavior, violence, neglect, and isolation. Alcoholics tend to ignore one’s needs also.

Tobacco use costs families over $1500 per year to buy tobacco products, it can cost families lost wages due to illness and can cost high medical bills.

Drugs that distort perceptions and cause a person to see or hear things that are not real.

Drug misuse has taken $181 billion of economic costs. Healthcare costs were $16 billion in 2002 due to drug abuse and AIDs were $3.4 billion of the costs due to intravenous drugs use.

Binge drinking is when a person drinks 5 or more drinks in one sitting. If one has been binge drinking, they may get alcohol poisoning from consuming too much alcohol.

Alcoholism can affect a child by the alcoholic becoming abusive to the child, the child may be neglected and the child may have to step up and take care of both their family and take care of the alcoholic, even at such a young age.

When tobacco free people won’t cough when they aren’t sick, they’ll have fewer colds, they’ll be less likely to have stained teeth and to have chronic gum disease, and they’ll be able to smell flowers again,