This document discusses several hard drugs including cocaine, crack, heroin, methamphetamines, ketamine, nitrous oxide, and krokodil. It notes the methods of taking the drugs, their short-term effects, dangers, and addictiveness. The document also mentions that drugs are sometimes cut with dangerous substances and that overdose can easily occur. It defines rehab as the place for drug addicts to recover and get clean.

1. Hard drugs

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

3. Drugs can make you ugly

4. cocaine
Cocaine 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.

5. crack
Crack 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.

6. heroin
Heroin is usually injected
with a syringe.
It is very addictive and
dangerous. Can cause
constipation, infertility
and depression
It comes from an opium
plant.

7. Heroin production map of the world

8. Drug smuggling

9. 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

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

11. krokodil
Krokodil has ingredients
like gasoline, paint thinner,
acid, and codeine.
Rotten flesh

13. Ketamine “Special K”
It is a tranquilizer
used medically to put
people and animals to
sleep.

14. Nitrous “whippets”
Can cause headaches,
vomiting and vitamin B-12
deficiency.
The high only lasts
for a few seconds.

15. Intoxicative inhalants- “huffing”
This is obviously terrible for
your body.
It is a disgusting way to get
high.

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

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

18. 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?

19. 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.