Drugs of Abuse

Please click below and you will be linked to a page on the NIDA website (National Institute on Drug Abuse). There you will find information on each drug, what it looks like, how it’s used, and the characteristics of a user under its influence.

• Alcohol (yes, it’s a drug)
• “Bath Salts” — an emerging, amphetamine-like drug
• Club Drugs 
• Cocaine 
• Ecstasy
• Heroin
• Inhalants
• Krokodil
• LSD
• Marijuana

Click here to view NIDA’s director, Dr. Nora Volkow, fascinating presentation on marijuana.   

• Meth
• PCP
• Prescription Drugs (including Oxycontin, Vicodin, Percosec, and others)
• Spice (synthetic marijuana)
• Stimulants, other (Ritalin, Adderall)
• Smiles
• Steroids