WHERE'S YOUR HEAD AT?

National Drugs Campaign

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M

Marijuana (CANNABIS)

Pot, grass, weed, reefer, joint, Mary-Jane, Acapulco Gold, rope, mull, cone, spliff, dope, skunk, bhang, ganja, hash, chronic... More

I

Ice

Meth, crystal meth, d-meth, shabu, tina, glass... More

S

Speed

Uppers, ice, meth, crystal, whizz, snow, go-ee, shabu, point, paste, base, zip, eve, leopard's blood, oxblood, gogo, MDEA... More

E

Ecstasy

E, Ex, E and C, eccy, MDMA, PMA, adam, XTC, love drug, eggs... More

C

Cocaine

Coke, flake, snow, happy dust, Charlie, gold dust, Cecil, C, freebase, toot, white girl, Scotty, white lady. Crack cocaine-crack, rock, base, sugar block... More

H

Heroin

Horse, hammer, H, dope, smack, junk, gear, boy... More

C

GHB

G, fantasy, grievous bodily harm (GBH), liquid ecstasy and liquid E... More

AT

Alcohol + Tobacco

It's easy to forget that alcohol and tobacco are drugs too... More

DRUGS


Alcohol + Tobacco

IMPACTS:
It's easy to forget that alcohol and tobacco are drugs too. Even though they are legal, smoking cigarettes and drinking too much alcohol have negative impacts on you and the people you're with.

Alcohol:

    • Alcohol is a depressant.
    • Getting drunk leads to blurred vision, dehydration, nausea, slow reflexes and putting yourself at risk of violence or sexual abuse.
    • A hangover is your body showing it is suffering from the amount of alcohol you've had.
    • You can actually die from an alcohol overdose.

Tobacco:

    • Even one cigarette does damage to your body.
    • Smoking kills more than 19,000 people in Australia each year.
    • It's the largest cause of preventable deaths in the western world.
    • Cigarette smoke is toxic - it contains over 4,000 chemicals including paint stripper.
    • People near a smoker breathe in the poisons too.

MORE INFO / LINKS:
Alcohol Information
www.alcohol.gov.au contains information for adults and young people about alcohol.

Tobacco Information
Oxygen (www.oxygen.org.au) encourages healthy lifestyle choices and provides interactive activities and information about tobacco for young people.