Now LISTEN! You can easily get addicted to cocaine (aka crack), ecstasy, heroin, steroids, and tobacco. Not only is illegal drugs addictive, but indoor prescription and regular daily pills is also addictive which can cause severe problems. Hallucinogens are strong mood-changing drugs with unpredictable psychological effects. LSD, or “acid,” is sold as tablets, capsules, liquid, or on absorbent(easily to absorb heat) paper. PCP is illegally manufactured as tablets, capsules, or colored powder and can be snorted, smoked, or eaten. Other hallucinogens can come in many forms, including plants and cough suppressants. Because hallucinogens alter your brain, they can affect the way you move, react to situations, think, hear and see.  These drugs skew your perception of time, reality and the environment around you. Hallucinogens affect your self-control and emotions.  They can cause you to mix up your speech, lose control of your muscles, make meaningless movements and do aggressive or violent things.  These drugs can make you feel confused, suspicious and disoriented. People who use these drugs a lot may have a hard time concentrating, communicating, or telling the difference between reality and illusion. Using hallucinogens increases your heart rate and blood pressure.  This rapid increase can lead to heart and lung failure, possibly causing coma or even death.  At low to moderate doses, PCP use causes breathing to become shallow, and flushing and profuse sweating occur.  Generalized numbness of the extremities and loss of muscular coordination also may occur. Inhalants are substances or fumes from products such as glue or paint thinner that are sniffed or “huffed” to cause a high.  Inhalants affect your brain with great speed and force and keep oxygen from reaching your lungs.  Animal and human research shows that most inhalants are extremely toxic.  Perhaps the most significant toxic effect of chronic exposure to inhalants is widespread and long-lasting damage to the brain and other parts of the nervous system.

Neurons in a part of the brain called the hippocampus can also be damaged by inhalants.  The damage occurs because the cells don't get enough oxygen.  Since the hippocampus helps control memory, someone who repeatedly uses inhalants may lose the ability to learn new things, may not recognize familiar things, or may have a hard time keeping track of simple conversations. Inhalants can cause sudden sniffing death, it can even happen in a single session. Users can die by suffocation, choking on their vomit, or having a heart attack because the heart beats irregularly and more rapidly.  Other risks include: nausea, seizures and fatal accidents.  Chronic use can lead to liver, lung, and kidney problems as well as muscle weakness.  Prolonged abuse can negatively affect a person's cognition, movement, vision, and hearing. Ketamine is an odorless, tasteless drug that is found in liquid, pill and powder form.  Ketamine was developed as an anesthetic for veterinarians to use on animals. Ketamine distorts sounds and sensations and makes users feel detached from reality. Users report sensations ranging from a feeling of floating to being separated from their bodies.  Some ketamine experiences involve a terrifying feeling of almost complete sensory detachment that is likened to a near-death experience. Ketamine can impair your senses, memory, judgment, and coordination.  Users can experience hallucinations and disconnection from everything around them. Certain doses of ketamine can cause dream-like states and hallucinations. In high doses, ketamine can cause delirium, amnesia, impaired motor function, high blood pressure, depression, and potentially fatal respiratory problems.

Prescription drugs are drugs that are usually given to users for particular reasons, such as pain killers, but unfortunately people decide to use them as a drug. However, the FDA also warns that prescription drugs can be dangerous or even lethal when taken without a prescription or not taken as directed by the health provider or the packaging. Over the counter drugs can also be dangerous  if taken without precaution,  and intentionally to get high. The health risks of abusing OTC cough and cold remedies include impaired judgment/nausea, loss of coordination, panic attacks, psychosis, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, loss of consciousness, insomnia, addiction, restlessness, numbness of fingers and toes, abdominal pain, irregular heartbeat, aches, cold flashes, high blood pressure, seizures, coma, and death. These risks can occur when these drugs are taken in very high dosages.