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Crystalline Methamphetamine
Crystalline Methamphetamine The drug methamphetamine is highly addictive, and the third most-abused substance in the whole world that affects the central nervous system. Methamphetamine is a shiny salt white or sometimes blue rock-like substance, usually called “a glass drug”. It is smoked with a glass pipe. However, people are abusing it in millions of different……
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Heroin
Heroin What is Heroin? Though appraised as an illegal drug, heroin’s highly addictive nature continues to give it a worldwide market. Known for the intense rush felt shortly after intake, heroin presents a threat to the human body on a number of levels. Commonly known as dope, big H, Dr Feelgood, smack, thunder, mud, skag,……
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Alcohol
Alcohol What is Alcohol? The availability and social acceptance of alcohol makes it one of the most commonly consumed intoxicating substances on earth. Alcohol Addiction Threats: [ref] http://www.addictionindia.org/images-ttkh/alcohol-related-harm-in-india-a-fact-sheet.pdf[/ref] Nearly 15% of individuals who “try” alcohol develop a dependency to it, and become alcoholics. Alcohol poses major and minor threats to a number of bodily……
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Tranquilizers
Tranquilizers What are Tranquilizers? Tranquilizers are a unique and potentially dangerous class of drugs used to induce states of relaxation and feeling of artificial tranquility. Individuals struggling with mental health issues and frequent anxiety attacks often use tranquilizers to help “calm themselves down.” Tranquilizers fall into two basic categories: Major and Minor. The difference between……
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OxyContin
Oxycontin What is OxyContin (Oxycodone)? OxyContin became a legal prescription drug less than 20 years ago. The narcotic pain reliever is a derivative of opium; its active ingredient is Oxycodone. When used correctly, OxyContin provides extended relief from pain associated with cancer, back pain or arthritis. However, this drug is often used for purposes unintended……
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Nicotine
Nicotine What is Nicotine? Tobacco has a rich history, dating as far back as the sixteenth century. The initial controversy with tobacco use was social acceptance. When addicts would use the drug people would complain about the hygienic aspects of spit tobacco. The modern concern for the narcotic is, of course, based on its health-impairing……
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Crack Cocaine
Crack Cocaine WHat is Crack Cocaine? Commonly referred to as crack, rock(s), sleet, base, cloud, hard ball, and nuggets, crack cocaine is the crystal form of pure cocaine, which is usually a white powder. Crack cocaine has a yellowish-white tint to it, and looks like small chunks of soap or plaster. Crack is usually broken……
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Cocaine
Cocaine What is Cocaine? Commonly known as coke, flake snow, toot, blow, nose candy, liquid lady, speedball, crack, and rock. Derived from the coca plant, cocaine is usually sold as a fine white powder (hydrocholride salt). The powder can be dissolved and injected into a vein, or kept dry and sniffed through the nose….…
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Marijuana
Marijuana What is Marijuana? Also known as ganja, pot, herb, grass, kif, weed, Mary Jane, reefer, skunk, chronic, boom, and gangster; Marijuana is a drug commonly abused throughout India. A blend of stems, seeds, and leaves from the cannabis sativa plant combine to create the drug. Modes of delivery vary from mixing it with……
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Ecstasy
Ecstasy What is Ecstasy? For Rs 1,200 per pill, Ecstasy remains a drug primarily abused by the upper class and by those “forced” to pay the high tab due to a developed addiction to the drug. Ecstasy is the street name for the drug “methylenedioxymethamphetamine,” or MDMA for short, and takes the form of a……