22._SOCIAL_PROBLEMS

addictive substance, nicotine satisfy your body but only for short time and then smokers need their cigarette again
- smoking causes cancer
- people are smoking because of stress, depression, problems in work, school, with family or only from bad habits
- nowadays is popular smoking hookah or electronics cigarette

alcohol
- changes behaviour, person lose inhibition, talk more freely
- alcohol escape from reality
- people often solve their problems by alcohol
- is depressant
- some people are free and happy after drinking but most of people are aggressive and depressed
- alcohol destroyed our livers and brain cells (mozkové buňky)
- after drinking alcohol people have headache and hangover

gambling

- the activity of betting money, for example in a game or on a horse race

drugs

- drug is substance which changes our mind and body

- many drugs are legal, we can buy them: alcohol, Tabasco, medicines

- drug can be put into categories according to the way they affect our bodies or mind:

-> depressants - they attack the central nervous system and slow it down
- alcohol, sleeping pills

-> narcotics - they reduce filling of pain
- heroin, morphine, opium

-> stimulants - they stimulate or speed up the central nervous system
- cocaine, caffeine

-> hallucinogens - they distort sight and sound, they may cause people to her and see thing that aren´t there
- LSD, certain mushrooms

-> designer drugs - they mimic other drugs
- vary dangerous because are made in illegal laboratories

-> steroids - they are usually given orally or by injection
- they could be such prescription drugs to treat medical problems or illegal for sportsmen who

want to improve their physical performance

-> psychoactive drugs - people use it for mind-altering effects
- they change function of the brain

-> marijuana - it has some of the effects of depressants, stimulant and hallucinogens
- one of the an addictive drugs quite easy to get
- it affects its users mentally, emotionally and physically
- it is made from dried leaves and flowering tops of marijuana plant
- use: smoking- rolled cigarettes, by various pipes
- smokers has red eyes, they laugh
- marijuana affects thinking and learning abilities

-> heroin - the most dangerous and addictive narcotic
- sometimes called black tar
- use: it can be injected, inhaled to nose or smoked
- effects: depression, apathy, decreased physical activity
- overdose: slow breathing, clammy skin, coma or death

-> LSD - extremely powerful hallucinogen
- use: in small tablets
- effects: panic, paranoia, loss of control

-> cocaine - crack, rock
- comes from leaves of the coca plant
- extremely addictive drug
- addiction can begin after first use
- use: sniffed to nose, injected to the bloodstream, granules which are smoked in glass pipe
- effects: -we fell it in ten seconds and it lasts 30 minutes then users need use it again
- stimulating effects are later change into anxiety, uncontrolled, talkativeness, increased pulse rate,

rapid heartbeat
- euphoria filling is followed by depression, creating to need smoking