Tranquilizers Ryan Bartholomew

• downers• goofballs• barbs• blue devils

• yellow jackets• ludes• Sedatives• Depressants

Street names

• Small dose may relieve anxiety and tension (50 mg.) Larger dose (100 mg., 200 mg.)

• makes people sleep in quiet places but makes people “high”.

• They become tolerant to the feeling of “highness” but not the lethal actions.

What it is used for (Effects)

• Can cause euphoria. • After a while can cause physical dependence.• During first few days of taking prescribed

sedative or tranquilizer, one usually feels sleepy and uncoordinated.

• but as body becomes accustomed to effects, these feelings begin to disappear.

• Higher doses cause impairment of memory, judgment and coordination, irritability, paranoid and suicidal thoughts

The Danger!

• tranquilizing drugs are found naturally in plants.

• Have been used for centuries to cure such troubles as tremors, insomnia, and heart problems.

• An example of a natural tranquilizer is valerian. – Which is a plant that grows in mild climates.

• Tranquilizers are made in labs.

How and where it’s made

Propaganda

• Lifetime abuse of Tranquilizers among 12th graders

• 1997- 7.8%• 1998- 8.5%• 1999- 9.3%• 2000- 8.9%• 2001- 9.2%

Scope of the Problem

• It’s usually used in the form of a pill.

This is what Tranquilizers usually look like.

Tranquilizer Pills

• Cheryl had a stressful job. One day she had an anxiety attack.

• Her doctor told her to take some Tranquilizers. • She eventually started using more and more.

She thought they could become addictive. Her doctor said they couldn’t.

• She persuaded him to take her off the drug anyway.

• Her anxiety attacks returned and got worse. – She went tranquilizer-free for 1 year.

Cheryl’s Story

• She had a really big anxiety attack. – A chemical imbalance was the cause of the anxiety

attacks. • The doctor put her back on the Tranquilizers.

She was fine for a while until she started feeling depressed.

• An anti-depressant was prescribed but she didn’t want to become dependent on them so she tried “withdrawing” again.

• This time she was successful.

Cheryl’s Story Cont.

• http://www.scienceclarified.com/Ti-Vi/Tranquilizer.html#ixzz0o3Hmja00

• http://theantidrug.mondosearch.com/cgi-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=0&EXTRA_ARG=&CFGNAME=MssFind.cfg&host_id=42&page_id=118&query=Tranquilizers&hiword=TRANQUILIZER%20Tranquilizers%20

• http://www.justice.gov/ndic/pubs1/1765/1765t.htm• http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Prescription%20

Sedatives%20Tranquilizers

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