Hard Drugs Can Ruin You
Hard Drugs Can Ruin You
Here are the facts you need.
Whether it be marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, or over 40 other hard drugs-they are all explained here. Plus all the reasons you should totally avoid them.
Warnings about certain other dangerous drugs are also given: Ritalin, Prozac, steroids, and human growth hormone.
Contents
Preface
Glossary: Describing the Misery
MARIJUANA
1 - CHEMICAL HALLUCINOGENS
1 - LSD 2 - Phencyclidine (PCP or Angel Dust) 3 - Embalming Fluid 4 - Ketamine 5 - Other Hallucinogens (MMDA, DET, Psilocin, 68, and STP)
2 - PLANT HALLUCINOGENS
1 - Peyote 2 - Mescaline 3 - Psilocybin 4 - DMT
3 - NATURAL NARCOTICS
1 - Opium 2 - Morphine 3 - Codeine
4 - SEMI-SYNTHETIC NARCOTICS
1 - Heroin 2 - Hydromorphone 3 - Oxycodone 4 - Etorphine 5 - Diprenorphine 6 - Fentanyl and Meperidine 7 - Rohypnol
5 - COCAINE
1 - Cocaine 2 - Free-basing Cocaine 3 - Cocoa Paste 4 - Snorted Cocaine 5 - Crack Cocaine
6 - OXYCOTIN
1 - Oxycotin
7 - STIMULANTS
1 - Amphetamines 2 - Mthamphetamine 3 - Crank 4 - Club Drugs 5 - Ecstasy (MDMA) 6 - GHB 7 - Ritalin 8 - Pseudo-Speed (Lookalikes)
8 - DEPRESSANTS
1 - Barbiturates 2 - Methaqualone
9 - INHALANTS
1 - Commonly used Inhalants 2 - Amyl Nitrite and Butyl Nitrite 3 - Inhallant Warning Signs
10 - TRANQUILIZERS
1 - Tranquilizers (Major and Minor)
11 - ANTI-DEPRESSANTS
1 - Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, etc.
12 - STEROIDS
13 - HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE
1 - A FAST LOOK AT DRUG EFFECTS
2 - 16 WARNING SIGNALS: A MESSAGE TO PARENTS
3 -THIRTY-FOUR WARNING SIGNS OF DRUG USE
4 -WHY YOUNG PEOPLE DO IT
5 - WHERE TO OBTAIN HELP
6 -ADDING A BETTER LIFE
Hard drugs give more than kicks-they give disease, mental damage, and death.
This book explains the hard drugs, one by one, in an easy-to-read style for you and your loved ones.
Here you will learn the dangers-why you must avoid them entirely.
There is no living horror like being on drugs. Life can be pleasant without them-but heartbreak and terror with them.
Dope-out is no halfway business. Either you stay clear away from it-or unpleasant things happen. And they do not stop happening.
In this book you will learn the names and effects, and how to identify them. And you will discover warning signs: what to look for in detecting their use by others.
Read this book - Share it with others - Leave copies where they will be found.
-for they need the information also.
Americans now consume 60 percent of the world's production of illegal drugs. Think about that fact a moment and you will see why you and your family need this book. Right now an estimated 20 million Americans are regular users of marijuana, 4 to 8 million are on cocaine, and half a million are hooked to heroin.
We are in the midst of a tidal wave of drug pushing. It is invading the communities, schools, and businesses of our nation. This year alone, more than 12 tons of heroin, 65 tons of marijuana, and 150 tons of cocaine will
spread across the land. From the biggest cities to the smallest towns, drugs are becoming the big thing among the youth of America .
Illegal narcotics is big business also. Sales currently total $100 billion annually. This is more than the net total sales of any of our largest corporations (General Motors, IBM, ITT, etc.). Yet it is a business that is sickening the minds and killing the bodies of people in record numbers.
Between 1981 and 1985, cocaine-related deaths alone in 25 major metropolitan areas more than doubled and cocaine-related emergency-room visits tripled.
Extensive studies by the National Institute on Drug Abuse has disclosed that 30 percent of all college students will use cocaine at least once before they graduate, and that up to 80 percent of all Americans will experiment with illegal drugs by their mid-20s. By the end of high school, two thirds of our teenagers will have used illicit drugs.
The NIDA report summarized it this way: "This nation's high-school students and other young adults show a level of involvement with illicit drugs greater than can be found in any other industrialized nation in the world."
And now, in the new century, these drugs are becoming far more plentiful, less expensive, and of greater chemical purity. This means more addicts and more frequent deaths (since greater purity means more concentrated strength in each dose).
Just one drug trip can cause great damage and possible lifelong addiction. The new, purer doses are more addictive and lethal than before. Cocaine, heroin, and a rapidly increasing list of synthetic drugs can threaten the life of even a first-time user.
Hard drugs are something to fear, not play with. The morgues and emergency rooms of America are working overtime with the results of such experimentation. Heroin, once the leading illegal killer drug, was the cause of at least 1,263 deaths last year; but cocaine is the new big-time death dealer. Between 1981 and 1985, the number of cocaine-related emergency-room admissions rose more than 300 percent to 9,946 in 1985. Deaths from cocaine are generally caused by cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, or brain hemorrhage.
Fifteen years ago, the average heroin addict measured a shot of the white powder, based on 6 percent purity of this street drug. But now heroin is averaging 14 percent-and can be as high as 99 percent pure opiate.
Fifteen years ago, an entire marijuana joint was needed to produce drowsy euphoria. But today, as a result of hybrid seeds and modern cultivation techniques, marijuana contains nearly three times the active agent (THC) than it did 10 years ago.
And cocaine purity has jumped to 80 percent higher in recent years. The book you now have in hand deals with the majority of the dangerous drugs that are now being used in North America . This is information that you need,
for knowledge is prevention. In the information given, there is an emphasis placed on the dangerous effects of each substance. This booklet is a deterrent-to keep your loved ones from getting started. Read it, save it. Near the back you will find information on danger signals and common signs that might indicate when drug abuse is near or is being indulged.
And more trouble is ahead. The drug epidemic grows every year. And new forms are continually being discovered or developed. Already epidemic in four South American countries is the use of coca paste, the crude extract of the coca leaf used to make cocaine. Because it is as pure as freebase cocaine, it is as addictive, powerful, and cheap. It is certain to come to America soon. Just now, "crack," (precooked cocaine) is the latest fad; but Ronald Siegel, of the Neuro-psychiatric Institute at UCLA, warns that if paste-smoked coca hits America , it will make crack "look like a garden party."
America is in big trouble now because of hard drugs. Bigger troubles are ahead. This book can give you information you need. Read it, loan it out, refer to its pages later.
In the 1990s, several new forms of addiction were introduced. These include black heroin, methamphetamines, ecstasy, club drugs, GHB, ketamine, inhalants, ritalin, rogypnol, and steroids. These are also discussed in this book.
What about tobacco and alcohol? These are the only two very notorious, dangerous drug substances not included in this present book. Each one is covered in remarkable detail in companion books:
YOU CAN QUIT TOBACCO -The book that can change your future. One of the most complete books on quitting tobacco you can find. And it is all carefully and simply explained. Reasons you must quit - Step-by-step how to quit - Ways to help you carry it through to success - Nutritional information that will help eliminate cravings - Weight control helps - More.
YOU CAN QUIT ALCOHOL -Another invaluable book. You may only be a social drinker, but don't take it for granted. Liquor is something to get rid of! This book will tell you how to do it. Step-by-step ways to quit, plus nutritional information that can help eliminate the craving.
Describing the Misery
The vocabulary of druggies does not need to be large. Just big enough to name the poison they want to take next. And what goes wrong when they take it.
A BAG - A packet of drugs or a single dose of an opiate. The amount of the drug in the bag is denoted by price: A "nickel bag" is $5; a "dime bag" is $10.
A FIX - One injection of an opiate, usually heroin.
A HIT - An injection of drugs.
COLD TURKEY - The withdrawal symptoms that occur after taking a drug.
CRASHING - Withdrawal from amphetamines, which is a swift descent from a high to the severe low of a depression.
DROP - To take any drug orally. For example, to take LSD, is to "drop acid."
FLASHBACK - The later sudden and totally unexpected return to an LSD trip weeks or months later.
HEAD - Someone who uses drugs frequently.
JUNKIE - An opiate addict.
MAINLINING - Also called "to shoot up," this is injecting a drug into a vein.
ON THE NOD - Or "nodding." The sleep-like state produced by taking opiates.
RUSH - The brief heightened state of exhilaration at the beginning of a high.
SKIN POPPING - To inject a drug under the skin.
STONED - The partial or totally "knocked out" intoxication produced by any drug or alcohol.
TRACK - Scars on the skin from the repeated injections of opiates into the veins.
TRIP - The nightmare experience caused by a psychedelic drug. A Bummer is an especially bad one.
WORKS - The apparatus for injecting a drug. It may include a needle and a bottle cap or spoon for dissolving the powered drug.
Over Forty Other Dangerous Drugs
Drug abuse has gone wild. Here is more about a variety of cousins, in-laws, and outlaws of the drug abuse family.