This is all about drugs: definition, classification

1. CICOSAT COLLEGES
Lingsat, City of San Fernando La Union
COLLECE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATION
CRIMINOLOGY INTERN

2. CLASSIFICATIONS OF DANGEROUS
DRUGS
(According to Effects)
• THE DEPRESSANTS (DOWNERS)
• NARCOTICS – are drugs, which relieve pain
and produce profound sleep or stupor when
introduced to the body. Medically, they are
potent painkillers, cough depressants and as
an active component of anti-diarrhea
preparations.

4. • MORPHINE – most comply
used and best used opiate.
Effective as a painkiller six
times potent than opium, with a
high dependence – producing
potential. Morphine exerts
action characterized by
analgesia, drowsiness, mood
changes, and mental clouding.

6. • BARBITURATES – are
drugs used for inducing
sleep in persons plagued
with anxiety, mental stress,
and insomnia. They are also
of value in the treatment of
epilepsy and hypertension.

8. • DEMEROL and METHADONE –
common synthetic drugs with
morphine – like effects. Demerol is
widely used as a painkiller in
childbirth while methadone is the
drug of choice in the withdrawal
treatment of heroin dependents
since it relieves the physical
craving for heroin.

10. • TRANQUILIZERS – are drugs
that calm and relax and
diminish anxiety. They are
used in the treatment of
nervous states and some mental
disorders without producing
sleep.

12. • VOLATILE SOLVENTS –
gaseous substances popularly
known to abusers as “gas”,
“teardrops”. They are inhaled
by the use plastic bags,
handkerchief or rags soaked in
these chemicals.

14. ALCOHOL
• the king of all drugs with
potential for abuse. It is
considered the most widely used,
socially accepted and most
extensively legalized drug
throughout the world.

16. THE STIMULANTS
(UppErS)
• AMPHETAMINES – used medically for
weight reducing in obesity, relief of mild
depression and treatment.

17. CAFFEINE
• it is present in coffee, tea, chocolate,
cola drinks, and some wake-up pills.

18. SHABU
• chemically known as methamphetamine
hydrochloride. It is a central nervous
system stimulant and sometimes called
“upper” or “speed”. It is white, colorless
crystal powder with a bitter numbing
taste. It can be taken orally, inhaled
(snorted), sniffed or injected.

20. NICOTINE
• an active component in tobacco which
acts as a powerful stimulant of the
central nervous system. A drop of pure
nicotine can easily kill a person.

21. THE HALLUCINOGENS
(PSyCHEdELIC)
• MARIJUANA – it is the most commonly
abused hallucinogen it can be grown
extensively in the country many users
choose to smoke marijuana for relaxation
in the same way people drink beer or
cocktail at the end of the day. The effects
of marijuana include a feeling of
grandeur.

23. • PEYOTE – is derived from the surface
part of a small gray brown cactus.
Peyote emits a nauseating odor and its
user suffers from nausea.

24. • PSILOYBIN - this hallucinogenic
alkaloid from small Mexican mushrooms
are used by Mexican Indians today.
These mushrooms induced nausea,
muscular relaxation, mood changes with
visions of bright colors and shapes and
other hallucinations.