Hard drugs

Having and using hard drugs can put you in jail for a long time. Selling drugs can mean the death sentence.

Drugs can make you ugly

cocaineCocaine is usually snorted into the nose.

After feeling high, users “come down” and often feel depressed and sad.

It is the most expensive drug to buy.

crackCrack is a cheap kind of cocaine that is smoked in a pipe.

It can cause a heart attack.

The high lasts less than 10 minutes.

heroinHeroin is usually injected with a syringe.

It is very addictive and dangerous. Can cause constipation, infertility and depression

It comes from an opium plant.

Heroin production map of the world

Drug smuggling

Methamphetamines or “speed”

Meth can make you paranoid, sick, and unable to sleep.

The high can last for days.

It can give you diarrhea and it is very addictive.

Dilated pupils

Many drugs are “cut” with other things like baking powder or rat poison.

krokodil

Krokodil has ingredients like gasoline, paint thinner, acid, and codeine.

Rotten flesh

Ketamine “Special K”

It is a tranquilizer used medically to put people and animals to sleep.

Nitrous “whippets”

Can cause headaches, vomiting and vitamin B-12 deficiency.

The high only lasts for a few seconds.

Intoxicative inhalants- “huffing”

This is obviously terrible for your body.

It is a disgusting way to get high.

Drug overdose

It is not difficult to overdose on hard drugs. They kill many people.

Rehab

Rehab is a place for a drug addict to “get clean” and turn their life around.

Questions

• Have you ever seen hard drugs in real life?• What is it called when someone takes too much of a

drug?• Where do people go if they need to recover from

drugs and get clean?• What is the word for a person who needs drugs all the

time?• What is the most expensive drug?• What would you say to someone you love who is

using drugs?

Role play

One person is a friend who does drugs, and the other is someone who has never tried it.

One person is a rehab counselor, and the other is a drug addict.