Street names: Booze, Sauce, Brews, Brewskis, Hard Stuff, Juice.
Symptoms of use: Slurred speech, impaired judgment and motor skills, incoordination, confusion, tremors, drowsiness, agitation, nausea and vomiting, respiratory ailments, depression.
Potential consequences: Impaired judgment can result in inappropriate sexual behavior, sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV/AIDS), injuries, and auto crashes. Habitual use can lead to an inability to control drinking, high tolerance level, blackouts and memory loss, interference with personal relationships, cirrhosis of the liver, vitamin deficiencies, damage to heart and central nervous system, sexual impotence, weight gain.
Route of administration: Ingested. Medical use: For appetite stimulation and mild sedation.
Legal status: Illegal under 21.
Product names: Sleeping pills and tranquilizers (Seconal, Nembutal, Smytal, Quaalude, Miltown, Norcet, Placidyl, Valium, Librium, Tauxene, Ativan, Xanax, Serax).
Street names: Downers, Ludes, Vs, Blues, Goofball, Red Devil, Blue Devil, Yellow Jackets, Yellow Bullets, Pink Ladies, Christmas Trees, Phennies, Peanuts.
Symptoms of use: Drowsiness, confusion, incoordination, tremors, slurred speech, depressed pulse rate, shallow respiration, dilated pupils. Potential consequences: Anxiety, depression, restlessness, psychotic episodes, chronic fatigue, insomnia, changes in eyesight, irregular menstruation, stopped breathing, suicide, dependence requiring more of the drug to get the same effect, severe withdrawal symptoms.
Route of administration: Ingested. Medical use: For tranquilization, sedation, and sleep.
Legal status: Prescription only.
Product names: Cocaine, crack cocaine.
Street names: Cocaine- Coke, Snow, Blow, Toot, Nose Candy, Flake, Dust, Sneeze. Crack cocaine- Crack, Rock, Base, Sugar Block, Rox/Roxanne.
Symptoms of use: Excitability, euphoria, talkativeness, anxiety, increased pulse rate, dilated pupils, paranoia, agitation, hallucinations.
Potential consequences: High risk for addiction, violent or erratic behavior, hallucinations,