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These are drugs that are attended by risk and therefore unsafe, perilous, and hazardous to people using it.
dangerous drugs
- it simply means as the study of how a drug affects the body.
Pharmacology
Refers to a variety of substances that dulled the senses and relieved pain.
Stupor
- The term “narcotic” comes from the Greek word “
narkotikos
- These are drugs relieve pain and produce profound sleep or stupor.
Narcotics
It is extracted from the coagulated juice poppy plant (Papaver Sumniferum Linne).
Opium
is the active ingredient and analgesic property of Opium.
Meconic Acid
Slang names of opium
Slang names:”Gum’”,”Gamot”, “Kalamay, “Panocha”
It is a white crystalline powder, light porous aubes or small white tablets.
Morphine
It is effective as a painkiler six times potent or stronger than opium, with a high dependence- producing potential
Morphine
Morphine discovered by?
Friedrich Serturner
Morphine slang names
Slang names: ‘”, Dreamer, “Pectoral,”Syup”, “AAA,”1A”, “999”
The most addicting opium derivative.
Heroin
It chemically known as Diacetylmorphine or Diamorphine.
Heroin
Heroin discovered by
Alder Wright
Heroin slang name
Slang names:”Snow”, “Stuff”, “Junk tooth”,”H”“Miracle drug
A derivative of morphine commonly available in cough preparations.
Codeine
Codeine discovered by?
Pierre robiquet
A morphine-like opioid and it is a brand name of meperidine. As a powerful painkilier, an addiction to the drug can develop quidkly.
Demerol
It is an opioid agonist of the morphine-type.
Percodan
It is a mu-opioid agonist, it may be subject to misuse, abuse, and addiction.
Darvin
Camphorated tincture of opium. It is a moture of opium, camphor, benzoic acid, and anise oil in alcohol.
Paregoric
It is a tindure of opiurn containing approximately 10% powdered opium.
Laudanum
Synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine but is 50-100 times more potent
Fentanyl
Fentanyl slang names
Apache, china girl, china white, jackpot
It is designed by clandestine chemist with the aim to manufacture compounds that produce the “high” or euphoria of parent drugs and avoid the penalties that would be levied against those ilegaly traffic the controlled substances
Designer drug
These are drugs that produce excitation, alertness, and wakefulness, intense feeling of”highness” and in some cases, a temporary rise in blood pressure and respiration.
It works by increasing the activity of the brain chemicals dopamine and norepinephrine. Dopamine is involved in the reinforcement of rewarding behaviors. Niorepinephrine affects blood vesselis, blood pressure andi heart rate, blood sugar, and breathing.
Stimulants
This is a natural produce obtained/extracted from the leaves of Erythroxrylum coca or the Coca Bush.
Cocaine
Cocaine First isolated in 1860 by
Dr. Albert Nieman
There are basically three chemical forms of cocaine:
- hydrochloride salt,
- freebase”
- Crack.
are a group of drugs that increase the activity of certain chemicals in the brain.
Amphetamines
Amphetamines slang names
Slang names: “Beanies”,”copilots”, “football hearts”,”pep pills”, “ampies”“Speedbals”
It is white, colorless, crystal or crystalline powder with a bitter numbing taste.
Methamphetamine Hydrochloride (Shabu)
It is considered as the poor man’s cocaine and was 1st synthesized in JAPAN (1919) “Kakuseizai”.
Methamphetamine Hydrochloride (Shabu)
- The feeling as if grains of sand are lying under the skin or small insects
are creeping on the skin.
Meth bugs / Magnan’s Symptoms
Shabu slang names
SLANG NAMES: “upper or speed’,”Shabs, “Tubas,”S, “Spoil”, “Ha”, and “Ice”.
It is a drug that is present in coffee, tea, chocolate, cola drinks and some wakeup pills
Caffeine
Aka Bath salts, Ivory Wave, The zombie drug
Flakka
