The drugs that now the first 8x heard still startled

Review the new drug threats among young people hiding under seemingly "harmless" names.

Most drug users start getting used to very young drugs - usually teenagers. This is the age to learn and want to assert that "I have grown up".

However, it is the trend of rebellion, proving that it is easy for them to fall into the path of substance abuse and drug abuse.

In recent years, drug abuse in young people has increased. Part of it is also because the number of new drugs and stimulants has become more and more "sophisticated" than before.

If in the past, the first 8x had only "played " heroin, now many new drugs have been crept and ruined the lives of young people.

Within the scope of this article, Dr. Huynh Thanh Hien - Ho Chi Minh City Psychiatric Hospital will share some of the popular drugs in Vietnamese youth today as well as their harms.

1. Rock drug (methamphetamine)

Rock drug (also known as meth) is one of the most dangerous narcotics known in the world today.

Stone drug users often face hallucinations, more likely to cause unmanageable and harmful actions to society.

"Rock" players often appear delusional delusions, so they tend to attack others.

According to Dr. Huynh Thanh Hien, "stone" is more addictive than heroin but causes more harm on the nervous system and mental disorders. Heroin has almost no psychosis, but 15-25% of "rock" players are psychotic after several uses and this rate increases if used for more than 6 months.

Psychotic symptoms of "stone" are often illusory, hearing strange noises, bogus human beings leading to confusion and fear.

Along with that, players "rock" often appear delusional harm should tend to attack others.

If overdose is used, psychosis is often called "kick" with wild behavior such as undressing, running out of the street, climbing electric poles .

2. Ecstasy

Using long-term ecstasy, users will also be psychotic with persistent and paranoid hallucinations.

Sold in the form of a pill and often colorful with floating pictures on the tablet - ecstasy is a "used" drug in the bar .

The shaking "bite" will make the user withstand the loud sound of the bar that many others cannot bear.

Although the same ATS group (amphetamine type stimulant) is less dangerous than "rock", the incidence of psychosis is also lower. But if used for a long time, users will also be psychotic with persistent and paranoid illusions.

3. Drug "bath salts"

In the form of crystals such as table salt, this drug is extracted from the leaves of Khat (scientific name Catha Edulis).

The active ingredient in bath salts is mephedrone, cathinone or a mixture of the two substances - there is a chemical formula similar to "rock".

This drug is extracted from Khat leaves.

This is a cheap drug but its level of danger is much higher than stone drug . According to experts, when entering the body - this drug causes the mutation hormone dopamine - responsible for the excitement feelings and hormones norepinephrine - the hormone of the nervous system.

This mutation makes users always have the feeling of flying, extremely stimulating, hallucinations . but also makes them seizures, body temperature above 40 degrees C, heart palpitations, paranoia and death death.

In addition, cathinone in this drug will cause a very dangerous disease - rhabdomyolysis - damaged and broken muscle tissue.

4. Marijuana

Marijuana is a plant that contains addictive substances (or drugs).

Marijuana is a plant that contains addictive substances (or drugs). In marijuana there are 3 main substances found: Cannabinoid, Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and Cannabinol.

In particular, THC is the main active substance causing mental effects, easily soluble in fat, so when smoking, THC quickly invades lung tissue.

Some people smoke after a few minutes will have physiological changes such as dizziness, light head lightheadedness, a little hungry, craving for sweets. In case of shock when smoking marijuana leads to vomiting, abdominal pain, spicy eyes, heart palpitations .

5. Grass America

Shaped like cannabis, but the fibers are more fragile, the American grass has a slight smell, burnt plastic, not "scent" like marijuana.

American grass is a leaf mixture of many addictive plants.

Often made of Khat leaves and impregnated with the same active ingredients as cannabis, this type is also known as synthetic marijuana.

American grass gives a mixed effect of stone (weaker) and cannabis (stronger than natural marijuana many times).

Due to this mixed effect, US grass is quite dangerous because it can cause psychosis with hallucinations and paranoid symptoms that people call "grass collapse".

6. Paper stamps / tongue charms

Paper stamps / talismans are essentially pieces of LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) - a hallucinogen.

LSD is a powerful neuronal stimulant, discovered by Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann in 1943. LSD is described as colorless, odorless, tasteless, exists in capsule, tablet and "Pellets" (paper coated with LSD).

LSD will begin to work after 90 minutes of use.

LSD will begin to work after 90 minutes of use. Unlike the "magic stone" that causes illusions, LSD often causes illusion.

During the climax, LSD users felt like they were in another world, having strong hallucinations - when it was shimmering, it was scary. For example, standing on the 5th floor looking down at the first floor only feels like 1m height or looking at a TV into 2-3 units .

LSD usually only causes illusions.

The size, shape of the surrounding objects is also distorted. Even the body becomes so sensitive that common hand touches become bizarre, sometimes panic and fear.

And this is a graph of the correlation between dependency level (addiction) and harm on individual health, community of drugs like Heroin, Cocaine, Meth .

The chart is published in the medical journal BMJ (British Medical Journal) in 2011.

Interim

The truth is that the consequences that drugs bring to people are extremely heavy. More than anyone else, love yourself, keep yourself in a position to stay away from these scary drugs.