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To learn more about club or obtain referrals The bottom line: If you know someone who to programs in your community, contact one of the uses club drugs, urge him or her to get help. If following toll-free numbers: you’re using them—stop! The longer you ignore the real facts, the more chances you take with SAMHSA’s National Clearinghouse for your life. It’s never too late. Talk to your parents, and Information a doctor, a counselor, a teacher, or another adult 800-729-6686 you trust. TDD 800-487-4889 linea gratis en español Do it today! 877-767-8432 Curious about the TV ads of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign? Check out the Web site at www.freevibe.com or visit the Office of National Drug

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Get the Facts… Club drugs affect your brain. The term “club drugs” Get the facts. Despite what you may have heard, club refers to a wide variety of drugs often used at all-night drugs can be addictive. dance parties (“”), , and concerts. Club drugs can damage the neurons in your brain, Stay informed. The club drug scene is constantly impairing your senses, memory, judgment, and changing. New drugs and new variations of drugs appear coordination. all of the time.

Club drugs affect your body. Different club drugs Know the risks. Mixing club drugs together or with have different effects on your body. Some common alcohol is extremely dangerous. The effects of one drug effects include loss of muscle and motor control, can magnify the effects and risks of another. In fact, blurred vision, and seizures. Club drugs like ecstasy mixing substances can be lethal. are that increase your heart rate and blood pressure and can lead to heart or kidney failure. Other Look around you. The vast majority of teens are not club drugs, like GHB, are that can cause using club drugs. While ecstasy is considered to be the drowsiness, unconsciousness, or breathing problems. most frequently used club drug, less than 1 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds use it on a regular basis. In fact, 98 Club drugs affect your self-control. Club drugs like percent of teens have never even tried ecstasy.1 GHB and Rohypnol are used in “date rape” and other assaults because they are that can make you Know the Signs… unconscious and immobilize you. Rohypnol can cause How can you tell if a friend is using club drugs? a kind of amnesia—users may not remember what they Sometimes it’s tough to tell. But there are signs you can said or did while under the effects of the drug. look for. If your friend has one or more of the following warning signs, he or she may be using club drugs: Club drugs are not always what they seem. • Problems remembering things they recently said or Because club drugs are illegal and often produced in did makeshift laboratories, it is impossible to know exactly • Loss of coordination, , fainting what chemicals were used to produce them. How strong • Depression or dangerous any illegal drug is varies each time. • Confusion • Sleep problems Club drugs can kill you. Higher doses of club drugs • Chills or sweating can cause severe breathing problems, coma, or even • Slurred speech death. What can you do to help someone who is using Before You Risk It… club drugs? Be a real friend. Save a life. Encourage Know the law. It is illegal to buy or sell club drugs. It is your friend to stop or seek professional help. For also a federal crime to use any controlled substance to information and referrals, call the National Clearinghouse aid in a sexual assault. for Alcohol and Drug Information at 800-729-6686.

For more information or for references to facts found in this Tips for Teens, go to www.ncadi.samhsa.gov.

Revised in 2006