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: Drugs can change the way you think and make you do things you wouldn't normally.
: The drugs we take that are not medicine are:
*[[Alcohol(Drug)|Alcohol]]*[[Caffeine]]
*Nicotine
===Examples===
{| class="wikitable"
| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |'''[[Alcohol(Drug)|Alcohol]]'''| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |'''[[Caffeine]]'''
| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |'''Nicotine'''
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|[[File:Smoking.png|center|200px]]
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| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |[[Alcohol (Drug)|Alcohol]] changes the way you think. It slows your reactions and also makes you more confident. This causes you to be clumsy and make mistakes. Too much [[Alcohol (Drug)|alcohol ]] damages your liver.| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |[[Caffeine ]] speeds up your reactions, makes your heart beat faster and makes you feel more awake when you're tired.
| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Smoking causes you to feel more relaxed and calm but also makes you feel more alert. Nicotine in cigarettes is very addictive making it difficult to quit. Over a long time smoking can lead to breathing problems and eventually lung cancer.
|}
===About Drugs===
: '''Drugs ''' can be [[medicine]] to make us better or they can be harmful.: All '''drugs ''' have [[Side Effect|side effects]].: '''Drugs ''' can change the way you think and make you do things you wouldn't normally.
====Medicine====
Some common [[medicine]] types you may have heard of:
*[[Pain Killer]]s - They can reduce pain or even make it go away.
*[[Antibiotic]]s - They weaken [[bacteria]] when you have an infection.
*[[Antihistamine]]s - They reduce the symptoms of hay fever[[hayfever]].
====Legal Drugs====
The legal [[drug]]s we take that are not [[medicine]] are:
*[[Alcohol (Drug)|Alcohol]] - Slows your reactions and makes you over confident.
*[[Caffeine ]] - Speeds up your reaction speed.
*[[Nicotine]] - Makes you feel relaxed but speeds up your heart rate.
Some dangerous illegal [[drug]]s that you may have heard of:
*Cannabis - Can make you feel happy or paranoid but makes you lazy and can lead to psychosis.
*Cocaine - Speeds up your reactions and makes you more confident but is extremely addictive, makes you feel depressed when you don't have any and damages the blood vessels that it touches leading the cartilage [[tissue]] in your nose the affected area to die. It can lead to the loss of teeth, makes you lose teeth disintegration of the nose and can cause the bones in your the face to crumble.
*Heroin - Makes you feel happy and sleepy but is extremely addictive, makes you feel depressed when you don't have it, can lead to infections that need amputation and spreads diseases like [[HIV]].
*LSD - Gives you hallucinations that can seem fun amusing or can seem very scary. Hallucinations might include: Thinking you're invincible so you walk into traffic on the motorway. Believing spiders are chasing you and jumping out of a window to escape them. Feeling constantly thirsty and drinking so much water that it kills you.: These drugs are illegal because they are so much more dangerous than [[caffeine]], [[Alcohol (Drug)|alcohol]] and [[nicotine]]. What makes them even worse is that the people that sell them may have added other ingredients that can be even more harmful.
==Key Stage 4==
===About Drugs===
: [[Drug]]s used in the treatment of [[disease]] are called [[medicine]]s.
: [[Drug]]s fit into several categories:
:*[[Painkiller]]s - Reduce the sensation of pain.
:*Hallucinogens - Cause the user to see, hear and feel things which are not real.
:*Narcotics - Any [[drug]] which makes the user feel sleepy.
:*[[Stimulant]] - A [[drug]] which decreases [[Reaction Time|reaction time]] making the user appear faster.
:*[[Depressant]] - A [[drug]] which increases [[Reaction Time|reaction time]] making the user appear slower.
:*[[Medicine|Medicinal Drug]]s - Any [[drug]] taken to improve [[health]].
====Medicine====
Some common [[medicine]] types you may have heard of:
*[[Pain Killer]]s - They can reduce pain or even make it go away.
*[[Antibiotic]]s - They weaken [[bacteria]] when you have an infection.
*[[Antihistamine]]s - They reduce the symptoms of [[hayfever]].
====Legal Drugs====
The legal [[drug]]s we take that are not [[medicine]] are:
*[[Alcohol (Drug)|Alcohol]] - Slows your reactions and makes you over confident.
*[[Caffeine]] - Speeds up your reaction speed.
*[[Nicotine]] - Makes you feel relaxed but speeds up your heart rate.
====Illegal Drugs====
Some dangerous illegal [[drug]]s that you may have heard of:
*Cannabis - Can make you feel happy or paranoid but makes you lazy and can lead to psychosis.
*Cocaine - Is a [[stimulant]] and makes you feel more confident but is extremely addictive, makes you feel depressed afterwards and damages the blood vessels that it touches leading the [[tissue]] in the affected area to die. It can lead to the loss of teeth, disintegration of the nose and can cause the bones in the face to crumble.
*Heroin - Makes you feel happy and sleepy but is extremely addictive, makes you feel depressed when you don't have it, can lead to infections that need amputation and spreads diseases like [[HIV]].
*LSD - Gives you hallucinations that can seem amusing or can seem very scary. Hallucinations might include: Thinking you're invincible so you walk into traffic on the motorway. Believing spiders are chasing you and jumping out of a window to escape them. Feeling constantly thirsty and drinking so much water that it kills you.
: These drugs are illegal because they are so much more dangerous than [[caffeine]], [[Alcohol (Drug)|alcohol]] and [[nicotine]]. What makes them even worse is that the people that sell them may have added other ingredients that can be even more harmful.
===References===
====AQA====
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====Edexcel====
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====OCR====
:[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0198359810/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0198359810&linkCode=as2&tag=nrjc-21&linkId=d768d99f1a06f7c12fab40e5aef85a55 ''Drugs, pages 228-229, 232-233, 240-241, 245, Gateway GCSE Biology, Oxford, OCR '']