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1. Cocaine
Cocaine is one of the worlds greatest drug threats because of the effects associated with it. It is a highly potent stimulant; meaning that it increases your senses to make you feel like you are more awake and to help increase your alertness. Cocaine can be used by being smoked, injected, or inhaled into the body. Cocaine is the same as and can be referred to as; coke, snow, nose candy, flake, blow, or white.The effects are strong, regardless of how it is used, how frequently it is used, or how much is used. The user can experience chest pain, respiratory failure, strokes, seizures and headaches, abdominal pain, nausea, paranoia. disturbances in heart rhythm, increased heart and respiratory rates, elevated blood pressure, dilated pupils, decreased appetite, loss of coordination, collapse, perspiration, blurred vision, dizziness, feeling of restlessness, anxiety, delusions, heart attacks, excessive activity, talkativeness, irritability, argumentative behavior, nervousness or agitation. The effects can last up to 30 minutes. Taking too much of this drug or any drug is called an overdose. When overdosing with cocaine, you can experience convulsions, hallucinations, and an increase in body temperature.

2. Crack
Crack is actually derived from cocaine which is powdered, into a solid form that is smoked. Crack Cocaine can be referred to as snow coke, hard ball, ice cube, hail, and nuggets. The effects are the same as cocaine.

3. Morphine
Morphine is currently a legal drug that is used medically for severe pain and to be only used as directed by a physician for short term medical use. However, morphine is very addictive and the higher the dose and the higher the frequency of use can cause respiratory depression, hives, constipation, difficulty in breathing and going to the bathroom, reduces sex drive, and impair mental and physical performances. Morphine is a narcotic, which means it reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behavior.

4. Heroin
Heroin is processed from morphine and appears as a white or a brown powder and can be also called smack, H, ska, and junk. Heroin users snort, smoke or inject this narcotic. The effects are surges of feeling awake and drowsy, collapsed veins, liver disease, lung complications, and for those who inject it risk getting diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.

5. Ecstasy
Ecstasy is a human made drug that acts as a stimulant and also a hallucinogen that is taken orally in a capsule or tablet form. It is considered to be a feel good drug that suppresses the need to eat, drink, or sleep. The effects are physical and psychological and are sometimes difficult to predict. The most common effects are increased heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature; jaw and teeth clenching/muscle tension, hypertension, dehydration, chills and/or sweating, nausea, blurred vision, faintness, dizziness, confusion, insomnia, and paranoia. The long term effects are muscle breakdown, hyperthermia, kidney failure and cardiovascular system failure, depression, sleep disorders, paranoia, drug craving, and persistent elevation of anxiety, liver damage, brain damage, and paralysis. The short term effects can last up to six hours.

6. LSD
LSD is the most potent hallucinogenic (a substance that induces hallucinations) substance known to man. There is no medical use for this drug. LSD is usually referred to as acid or blotter. The effects of LSD are unpredictable and usually start to occur anywhere from 30 to90 minutes after taking it. Depending on the amount taken and the user's personality, mood and surroundings the effects can differ. Some effects include dilated pupils, higher body temperature, increased heart rate and blood pressure, sweating, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, dry mouth, and tremors. Sensations and feelings change much more dramatically than the physical signs. The user may feel several different emotions at once or swing rapidly from one emotion to another. Depending on the dose, the drug can produce delusions and visual hallucinations, which can be frightening and cause panic. The effects last up to twelve hours and can become deadly due to terrifying thoughts and feelings.

7. PCP
PCP is another hallucinogen that has many of the same effects as LSD. PCP is a crystal powder that comes in forms of a tablet, liquid, or powder and can be taken orally or smoked. At one time it was used for medicinal purposes as an anesthetic, but it isn't any longer due to the intense psychological effects. PCP is also called angel dust, ozone, rocket fuel and wack. A medium amount of this drug can cause you to feel distant, numb, slurred speech, and loss of coordination. A blank stare, rapid eye movement, auditory hallucinations, image distortion, severe mood disorders and amnesia,
paranoia, violent feelings of impending doom. People that become high on PCP often become suicidal if hospitalized or detained.

8. Magic Mushrooms
Magic Mushrooms are hallucinogens produced synthetically from certain mushrooms to induce relaxation in the muscles, dilate pupils, nausea, diarrhea, and create vivid auditory and visual distortions and disturbing emotions. The effects last usually between 3 and 24 hours.

9. Marijuana
Marijuana or weed is the most widely used illegal substance in the world. Marijuana is smoked or ingested orally. Within a few minutes of inhaling marijuana smoke, one's heart beats more rapidly and the bronchial passages become enlarged. Memory is impaired as well as concentration, attention span, and judgment. Increased appetite called the munchies will occur. Long term effects include paranoia and panic attacks and can lead to medical complications such as increased risk of chronic cough, bronchitis, and emphysema; increased risk of cancer of the head, neck, and lungs; a decrease in testosterone levels and lower sperm counts for men and an increase in testosterone levels for women and increased risk of infertility.he above drugs are illegal and are considered drugs, however, many teens have taken every day household items for use other than what they are intended, causing the effects of a high. These inhalants are the most popular and the most deadly for people to abuse. Among the inhalants are; paint thinners, gasoline, glues, butane lighters, spray paints, hair sprays, nitrous oxide, and chloroform. Short term effects are that they slow down the body's functions and loss of consciousness. These inhalants are toxic and exposure can lead to brain damage, multiple sclerosis, heart failure, suffocation, convulsions, seizures, coma, hearing loss, and much more damage to the central nervous system.Over the counter drugs, if abused, can achieve a high or cause psychoactive effects. An example would be cough and gold remedies.
They are safe and effective when used as directed, but if abused, it can cause impaired judgment. Loss of coordination, dizziness, hot flashes, and hallucinations.As much as over the counter drugs can be abused, so can prescription drugs. Misuse or abuse of prescription medications can cause severe respiratory depression, restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, involuntary movements, irregular heartbeats, feelings of hostility, paranoia, and death.Remember that there is a difference between abuse and misuse. Misuse occurs when the patient doesn't follow instruction because he or she thinks that taking more or less of the drug will help them heal quicker. Abuse means that the person with or without a prescription intentionally takes a prescription drug to get high or for some reaction other than what the drug is intended to do.All of this information is a lot of information and can be useful, as long as you, the parent are willing to teach and your child is willing to listen and learn. Sometimes even after your child listens and you teach them to the best of your ability, then still do not follow your advice, it is not your fault. Your child is his or her own person and makes their own decisions. If they make the wrong decisions, being a parent, please help and love your child enough to stand by them and help them to recover and to not continue this abuse and or misuse. A parent's love is unconditional. Drugs are all around. There is no shield to stop or prevent your child from delving into this downward spiral of drugs. But you can educate them to the fullest.