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What is Meth?
Methamphetamine (Meth) is an addictive stimulant that strongly activates certain systems in the brain.
What are the street names/slang terms for Meth?
Chalk, Crank, Croak, Crypto, Crystal, Fire, Glass, Meth, Tweek, White Cross.
What does it look like?
Meth is a crystal-like powdered substance that sometimes comes in large rock-like chunks. When the powder flakes off the rock, the shards look like glass, which is another nickname for meth. Meth is usually white or slightly yellow, depending on the purity.
How is it used?
Meth can be taken orally, injected, snorted, or smoked.
What are its short-term effects?
Immediately after smoking or injection, the user experiences an intense sensation, called a “rush” or “flash,” that lasts only a few minutes and is described as extremely pleasurable. Snorting or swallowing meth produces euphoria – a high, but not a rush. After the initial “rush,” there is typically a state of high agitation that in some individuals can lead to violent behavior. Other possible immediate effects include increased wakefulness and insomnia, decreased appetite, irritability/aggression, anxiety, nervousness, convulsions and heart attack.
What are its long-term effects?
Meth is addictive, and users can develop a tolerance quickly, needing larger amounts to get high. In some cases, users forego food and sleep and take more meth every few hours for days, ‘binging’ until they run out of the drug or become too disorganized to continue. Chronic use can cause paranoia, hallucinations, repetitive behavior (such as compulsively cleaning, grooming or disassembling and assembling objects), and delusions of parasites or insects crawling under the skin. Users can obsessively scratch their skin to get rid of these imagined insects. Long-term use, high dosages, or both can bring on full-blown toxic psychosis (often exhibited as violent, aggressive behavior). This violent, aggressive behavior is usually coupled with extreme paranoia. Meth can also cause strokes and death.
What is its federal classification?
Schedule II
Source
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
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What is PCP?
PCP, or phencyclidine, is a dissociative anesthetic that was developed in the 1950s as asurgical anesthetic. Its sedative and anesthetic effects are trance-like, and patients experience a feeling of being “out of body” and detached from their environment. Use of PCP in humans was discontinued in 1965, because it was found that patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its anesthetic effects.
What are the street names/slang terms for PCP?
Angel Dust, Elephant Tranquilizer, Embalming Fluid, Killer Weed, Ozone, Peace Pill, Rocket Fuel, Supergrass.
What does it look like?
PCP is a white crystalline powder that is readily soluble in water or alcohol. It has a distinctive bitter chemical taste.
How is it used?
PCP turns up on the illicit drug market in a variety of tablets, capsules, and colored powders. It is normally used in one of three ways — snorted, smoked, or eaten. When it is smoked, PCP is often applied to a leafy material such as mint, parsley, oregano, tobacco or marijuana.
What are its short-term effects?
At low to moderate doses, PCP can cause distinct changes in body awareness, similar to those associated with alcohol intoxication. Other effects can include shallow breathing, flushing, profuse sweating, generalized numbness of the extremities and poor muscular coordination. Use of PCP among adolescents may interfere with hormones related to normal growth and development as well as with the learning process. At high doses, PCP can cause hallucinations as well as seizures, coma, and death (though death more often results from accidental injury or suicide during PCP intoxication). Other effects that can occur at high doses are nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, flicking up and down of the eyes, drooling, loss of balance, and dizziness. High doses can also cause effects similar to symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions, paranoia, disordered thinking, a sensation of distance from one’s environment, and catatonia. Speech is often sparse and garbled. PCP has sedative effects, and interactions with other
central nervous system depressants, such as alcohol and benzodiazepines, can lead to coma or accidental overdose. Many PCP users are brought to emergency rooms because of PCP’s unpleasant psychological effects or because of overdoses. In a hospital or detention setting, they often become violent or suicidal, and are very dangerous to themselves and to others.
What are its long-term effects?
PCP is addicting; that is, its use often leads to psychological dependence, craving, and compulsive PCP-seeking behavior. People who use PCP for long periods report memory loss, difficulties with speech and thinking, depression, and weight loss. These symptoms can persist up to a year after cessation of PCP use. Mood disorders also have been reported.
What is its federal classification?
Schedule II
Source
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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What is Methcathinone?
Methcathinone is a stimulant that is a structural analogue of methamphetamine and cathinone. The drug is made from a mixture of battery acid, Drano, and over-the-counter asthma medication and can be manufactured in home kitchens.
What are the street names/slang terms for Methcathinone?
Bathtub speed, Cadillac express, Cat, Ephedrone, Gagers, Gaggers, Goob, Jeff, Mulka, Speed, The C, Wild cat, Wonder star.
What does it look like?
A white or off-white crystalline powder. Almost exclusively sold in the stable and highly water-soluble hydrochloride salt form.
How is it used?
It is most commonly snorted, although it can be taken orally by mixing it with a beverage or diluted in water and it can be injected intravenously.
What are its short-term effects?
Short-term effects of methcathinone include: stimulation of heart rate and respiration, feeling of euphoria, loss of appetite, increased alertness, dilated pupils, and temperature may be slightly elevated. Acute intoxication at higher doses may also result in insomnia, tremors and muscle twitching, fever, headaches, convulsions, irregular heart rate and respirations, anxiety, restlessness, paranoia, hallucinations and delusions.
What are its long-term effects?
Little scientific research is available on the long-term effects of methcathinone.
What is its federal classification?
Schedule I
Source
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
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What is Ecstasy?
MDMA or Ecstasy (3-4-methylenedioxymethampheta-mine) is a synthetic drug with amphetamine-like and hallucinogenic properties. It is classified as astimulant. Its content varies widely and it frequently consists of DXM, PCP andamphetamine.
What are the street names/slang terms for Ecstasy?
Adam, E, Roll, X, XTC.
What does it look like?
Ecstasy comes in a tablet form or capsule often with a symbol printed on it.
How is it used?
Users sometimes take Ecstasy at “raves,” clubs and other parties to keep on dancing and for mood enhancement. It is typically taken orally, but is also available in a powder and is sometimes snorted. It is rarely injected.
What are its short-term effects?
Users report that Ecstasy produces intensely pleasurable effects – including an enhanced sense of self-confidence and energy. Effects include feelings of peacefulness, acceptance and empathy. Users say they experience feelings of closeness with others and a desire to touch others. Other effects can include involuntary teeth clenching, a loss of inhibitions, transfixion on sights and sounds, nausea, blurred vision, muscle tension, reduced appetite, sleep problems, and chills and/or sweating. Increases in heart rate and blood pressure, as well as seizures, are also possible. The stimulant effects of the drug enable users to dance for extended periods, which when combined with the hot crowded conditions usually found at raves, can lead to severe dehydration and hyperthermia or dramatic increases in body temperature. This can lead to muscle breakdown and kidney, liver and cardiovascular failure. Cardiovascular failure has been reported in some of the Ecstasy-related fatalities. After-effects can include
sleep problems, anxiety and depression.
What are its long-term effects?
Repeated use of Ecstasy ultimately may damage the cells that produce serotonin, which has an important role in the regulation of mood, appetite, pain, learning and memory. There already is research suggesting Ecstasy use can disrupt or interfere with memory.
What is its federal classification?
Schedule I
Source
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) & National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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Media Partnership is Effective
The media is an important resource for educating young people and parents about the dangers of drug use. Since 1993, Drug Free Pennsylvania has worked with broadcasters and newspapers across the Commonwealth to send a clear powerful message about the risks associated with substance abuse to
young people and urging parents to become involved. Most efforts are focused on radio, print, and television outlets, but some non-traditional venues are used as well, such as shopping malls, airports, and sports arenas. More than 375,000 spots worth over $16 million have been printed or aired
since the program began.
Campaign Gets Results
Training Staff About Substance Abuse
Educating management and employees about substance abuse and its consequences goes a long way toward making the workplace safer. Drug Free Pennsylvania offers on-site training for both supervisors and employees on the physical signs and symptoms of illegal drugs and alcohol, as well
as how to implement prevention protocols and risk management. As an added benefit, the organization also offers worksite training for parents that help them effectively talk to their kids about drugs.
Drug Free Pennsylvania has formed a partnership with the State Workers’ Insurance Fund (SWIF) to offer their policyholders with premiums greater than $20,000 a discount on their workers’ compensation policy premium based on their level of participation in our Drugs Don’t Work Here program. Our program is an all-inclusive, low-cost solution to help you establish and maintain a drug-free environment in your company.
These discounts are intended to help you with some of the startup costs associated with implementing a drug-free workplace. Since the program began in 2001, over
$800,000 in premium discounts have been issued to SWIF policyholders who joined the Drugs Don’t Work Here program. The program is completely voluntary, and your company could realize up to a 5% one time premium credit, after policy expiration.
The credit obtained will be based on the number of Program Components adopted over the first 10 months of the policy period. This program offers a lot of flexibility. You can choose one (1) component or all five (5). The program can be structured to satisfy your own corporate culture by allowing you to implement fewer components to qualify for partial discounts.
Program Components and Discounts
(Click on component name for description)
| Policy Development | 2% |
| Employee Assistance Program (3-Session Model) | 1% |
| Employee Training | 1% |
| Supervisory Training | 1% |
| Drug and Alcohol Testing | 1% |
| Premium Discount Formula SWIF Policy Premium X Discount (%) = Premium Discount |
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What is GHB?
Gamma-hydroxybutrate (GHB) is predominantly a central nervous systemdepressant.
What are the street names/slang terms for GHB?
G, Georgia Home Boy, Grievous Bodily Harm, Liquid Ecstasy.
What does it look like?
GHB can be produced in clear liquid, white powder, tablet, and capsule forms. It is colorless and odorless. GHB has a salty taste; however it is often diluted in liquids and virtually undetectable. GHB is often manufactured in homes with recipes and kits found and purchased on the Internet.
How is it used?
In powder form, measuring a dose is fairly straightforward. In liquid form, GHB comes in a wide variety of concentrations with a single dose ranging from a few drops to a full glass.
What are its short-term effects?
At lower doses, GHB can relieve anxiety and produce relaxation. Combining use with other drugs such as alcohol can result in nausea and difficulty breathing. GHB may also produce withdrawal effects, including insomnia, anxiety, tremors, and sweating.
What are its long-term effects?
As the dose increases, the sedative effects may result in sleep and eventual coma or death. GHB has reportedly been used in cases of date rape. Because GHB is odorless and tasteless, it can be slipped into someone’s drink without detection.
What is its federal classification?
Schedule I
Source
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) & National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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