ISSUES
: Drugs
Assignments
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Index/Acknowled e
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Illustrations
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& 18. Angelo Madrid: pages 16 & 25.
Additional acknowledgements
Editorial on behalf of Independence Educational
Publishers by Cara Acred.
With thanks to the Independence team: Mary Chapman,
Sandra Dennis, Christina Hughes, Jackie Staines and
Jan Sunderland.
Cara Acred
Cambridge
May 2016
LSD (acid)
classification and penalties for possession 19, 22
effects on the brain 11
facts about 3
MDMA
see
ecstasy
methamphetamine
effects on the brain 11–12
facts about 3
Misuse of Drugs Act 19, 24, 30, 31
narco-capitalism 29
needle and syringe programmes 16
Netherlands 27
new psychoactive substances (NSP)
see
legal highs
New Zealand 32
nitrous oxide/laughing gas
consumption trends 8, 17
festival bans of 17
and the law 30
physical numbness/tingling 8
over-the-counter-medicines
drug driving and the law 25
harm from abuse of 10
psychological dependence 10
painkiller misuse 10, 13
parents
influence on young people’s alcohol consumption 4
as source of information on drugs 13
performance-enhancing substances 14
phenethylamines 31
polydrug/polysubstance use 5, 13
Portugal 27, 29
prescription drugs, misuse of 13
salvia 30
schools
exclusions for drug and alcohol use 12
role in drug education 4, 12, 13
teachers as information sources on drugs 13
smoking
see
cigarettes
solvents 11, 19
speed (amphetamine)
classification and penalties for possession 19, 22
effects on the brain 11–12
steroids
classification and penalties for possession 19, 22
cosmetic uses 14
criminalization of use of 15
global misuse of 14
harmful effects of 12, 14–15
injecting of 14, 15
needle and syringe programmes and 15–16
overview of 14
user profiles 14, 15
steroids and image-enhancing drugs (SIEDs) 15–16
sugar addiction 39
Sweden 28
tobacco
see
cigarettes
tranquillisers 12
treatment
see also
addiction
addiction as a health/medical issue 29, 32
addiction services 35
coercive treatment 26
as compulsory for welfare claimants 26
public support for 34
specialisation of 26
therapy for families 36
United States of America (USA)
legalisation of medical marijuana, USA 21, 28
prison inmate population for drug offences 30
Uruguay 27
vape pens 6
war on drugs 23, 24, 28, 29
