Cocaine Ritalin

Cocaine is a powerful and addictive Ritalin is a stimulant prescription stimulant that can be snorted, smoked, or injected. Cocaine stops dopamine drug that some people take for from re-entering neurons, so dopamine medical reasons, like ADHD. Only stays in the synapse longer. This causes a doctor can prescribe Ritalin. It is dopamine to overstimulate neurons. illegal to take a prescription drug This then causes the brain and spinal that is not prescribed for you. For cord to speed up activity and the heart people who don’t need to take to beat faster. Sometimes the heart Ritalin as a medicine, it can cause stops working! Cocaine also makes a increased heart rate, sleeping person not want to eat or sleep, which problems, and loss of appetite. This are things the body needs to stay is not healthy! healthy. Nicotine Caffeine

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Nicotine is a mild stimulant drug found in cigarettes and chewing tobacco. When nicotine is smoked, chewed, or inhaled, it gets in the blood stream and causes the heart to Caffeine is a stimulant found in work harder to do its job. In the brain, coffee, tea, cocoa, soft drinks, and nicotine attaches to specific receptors for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. some medicines. A little bit of This increases the activity of the caffeine can cause a person to feel receptors. Smoking and chewing more awake, but in larger doses it tobacco can cause cancer of the lungs, can disrupt sleep patterns and make throat, and mouth. Nicotine is a very a person not want to eat. Caffeine addictive drug, but it’s actually the can also cause headaches, dizziness, tobacco or smoke in these products nervousness, and irritability. Caffeine that is harmful and can cause cancer. is addictive. Amphetamine Effects of Stimulants

MOUTH: Drugs like Stimulants nicotine are smoked BRAIN: attach to receptors and inhaled through in the brain and the mouth. Tobacco disrupt normal can also be chewed neurotransmission. to release the nicotine. This can cause cancer of the mouth and throat. NOSE: Some stimulants, like LUNGS: cocaine, can be snorted through Smoking the nose. This can cigarettes can Amphetamine is a powerful damage the blood cause lung vessels in the nose stimulant drug that affects the brain cancer and and make the nose emphysema. in many ways. It causes increased red and itchy. heart rate and blood pressure, sleeplessness, decreased appetite, decreased tiredness, shaking, cloudy thinking, and violent behavior. This can be dangerous! In the brain, amphetamine increases the amount HEART: All stimulants of the neurotransmitters dopamine LIVER: The liver filters cause the heart to beat and norepinephrine in the synapse waste from the blood to faster by making the keep the body healthy. blood vessels smaller. (space between the neurons). Stimulants cause the liver The heart has to work Ecstasy is a drug that has effects to work harder to do very hard to send blood that are similar to amphetamine. its job. all through the body.