NSTP MIDTERM

• Alcohol


  • A drug that can change the way a person thinks, feels and acts. It can also change the way the body works. Drinks such as beer, liquor and wine have alcohol in them. The extent to which alcohol affects an individual depends upon how much it builds up in the bloodstream. Alcohol slows down the work of the brain. It can also keep a person from thinking or speaking clearly than usual. It might make a person less skillful in using the muscles.
• Morphine


  • Widely used as a pain-killer and is often used after surgery or for cancer cases.
• Heroin


  • Made from morphine. Its medical use is illegal in the country. As the senses become dull, the user's tensions, fears, and worries are eased.
• Narcotics use


  • Results to drowsiness, vomiting, nausea and difficult concentration. It also lowers body temperature, dilate blood vessels in the skin and lower the blood pressure. It can also largely affect emotional and social health. Psychic distress arising from anxiety, hostility and feeling of inadequacy and users sometimes become alienated and hostile towards friends and family members who were previously important.
• Stimulants


  • Used to increase mental activity and to offset drowsiness and fatigue. The most commonly abused stimulants are amphetamine and cocaine. Long term abuse or overdose physical effects can include tremor, restlessness, change to sleep patterns, anxiety and increase in pre-existing anxiety, poor skin condition, gastrointestinal narrowing and weakened immune system. Fatigue and depression can follow the excitement stage.
• Tranquilizers


  • A drug that acts on the central nervous system and is used to calm, decrease anxiety, or help a person to sleep. Often called depressants because they suppress the central nervous system and slow the body down, they are used to treat mental illness as well as common anxiety and sleeplessness. Available only by prescription, they can cause dependence and certain ones can easily be abused.