ALCOHOL: The most popular drug BY FAR. A depressant, makes you sociable; too much and you’ll have a hangover, way too much alcohol will put you in a coma or kill you. Causes more illness, accidents, violence and death than all the other drugs combined. It’s legal and anyone over the age of 16 can buy, the gateway drug to all the others in this list…
BUTANE: Sniffed to get you high. Makes you uninhibited, euphoric and dizzy, effects on your heart can cause death, even the first time.
COCAINE: Snorted, makes you feel on top of the world, confident, alert and awake, but over-confident, arrogant and aggressive and end up taking careless risks. When the effects wear off you get a comedown, feel depressed and run down.
DEXIES: are amphetamine type drugs and have stimulant effects. Speed, Dexedrine, Ritalin, keep you awake, energised and alert. Overuse leads to overactive, agitated or psychotic conditions.
ECSTASY: The original designer drug. Makes you energised, happy to dance for hours, the effects last 3 to 6 hours, followed by a gradual comedown. People feel in tune with their surroundings, with sounds and colours more intense. Users develop temporary feelings of love and affection for the strangers around them.
FAGS: Regular smokers believe that smoking tobacco helps them to relax, handle stress and less hungry, but smoking makes you smell. It’s a risk factor for emphysema, heart attacks, strokes and lung cancer. Smoking contributes to 100,000 premature deaths in the UK every year.
G: GHB & GBL (gammabutyrolactone), are sedative with anaesthetic effects. Produces a feeling of euphoria and reduces inhibitions, make you super horny and causes sleepiness. But it is particularly dangerous with alcohol.
HEROIN: Made from opium has been around for hundreds of years. Heroin is a strong painkiller. A small dose gives a feeling of well-being; bigger doses can make you sleepy and very relaxed. Heroin is highly addictive and people quickly get hooked.
INHALIANTS: Glue, petrol or gas: Effects depend on what glue, gas or aerosol is sniffed, but includes mood swings, aggressive behaviour, hallucinations, vomiting and blackouts, drunk with dizziness, dreaminess, fits of the giggles, and difficulty thinking straight.
JUICE: Steroids mimic hormones in the body that control how the body develops. Anabolic steroids improve endurance, helps build muscles. They help gym-bunnies train harder and longer. Can make some users feel paranoid, irritable, aggressive or ‘roid rage’ violent, and cause dramatic mood swings and horrible skin problems.
KETAMINE: A powerful anaesthetic reducing sensations, gives a detached feeling as if the mind and body have been separated, with some people incapable of moving. This is called a k-hole. You trip for several hours, can cause agitation, panic attacks, and memory loss.
LSD: Acid, a powerful hallucinogenic drug, distorting view of objects and reality, including seeing and sometimes hearing things that aren’t there, known as a ‘trip’. Trips can be good or bad. Time and movement can appear to speed up and slow down. Colour, sound and objects can get distorted and be unpredictable.
MEOW MEOW: Mephedrone gives you euphoria, alertness and feelings of affection or anxiety can also overstimulate your heart and circulation; and your nervous system, with risk of fits.
NITROUS OXIDE: Laughing gas, is inhaled makes you feel euphoric and relaxed or experience hallucinations. The gas is transferred to a balloon, then inhaled.
OPIATES: Painkillers are medicines on prescription; they are sedative painkillers that depress the nervous system, slowing down body functions and reducing physical and psychological pain. They are highly addictive.
POPPERS: When inhaled they dilate the blood vessels and give a short, sharp head-rush like high, enhanced sexual experiences. Feelings of sickness, faintness and weakness, dangerous with heart problems or with Viagra
QUAALUDE: Was the party drug of the 1970s. It was known as “disco biscuits” because it released users’ sexual inhibitions thus making it a nightlife mainstay.
ROHYPNOL: Makes the user feel calm and relaxed and help sleep. Has been used in sex crimes, where a victim’s drink is spiked, knocking them out so they’re unable to prevent a sexual assault.
SPICE: Synthetic cannabinoids act like cannabis (THC) but are much stronger; the effects – good and bad are similar. Users feel happy and relaxed, get the giggles, feel hunger pangs and become talkative or feel ill or paranoid. Sold as an herbal smoking mix.
TINA: Methamphetamine aka crystal meth, powerful rushy stimulant, keeps you awake, alert, energised, abandoned and super horny. Too much will tip you into an overactive, agitated or even psychotic state, very addictive, one of the main drugs driving the chemsex circuit.
ULTRAM: Tramadol is prescription medicine used to treat moderate pain, with feelings of warmth and well-being, relaxation and sleepiness can also cause fatigue, drowsiness, diarrhoea or fainting.
VIAGRA: Initially used for sex, improving erections, increasingly the drug is mixed with ecstasy to enhance a feeling of euphoria, sexstasy. It’s the most counterfeited drug in the world
WEED: Cannabis: THC is the ingredient makes you feel very chilled out and relaxed. It alters your senses. Cannabis effects how your brain works. Makes you feel anxious and even paranoid, it can make it difficult for you to concentrate, make you feel less motivated. The most popular illegal drug in the UK
XANAX: Tranquillisers. These induce calmness, relaxation and are used to treat anxiety and insomnia. Prescription only medicines most common are Xanax, Rohypnol, Valium, with nasty withdrawal symptoms, including decreased concentration, tremors, vomiting, panics and depression.
YABA: Methamphetamine makes you feel very up, exhilarated, alert and awake can leave you feeling agitated, confused and aggressive. Long-term use causes brain damage, crystal form Crystal Meth or Ice, is extremely powerful and gives an intense, powerful high followed by a very severe comedown, very addictive.
Z-drugs: Zopiclone, Sanofi are a group of non-benzodiazepine drugs used in the treatment of insomnia, overuse causes sleep disruptions, anxiety and depression.
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A Cuckoo In The Nest!
What is cuckooing?
Cuckooing is where criminal gangs target vulnerable people in their homes to deal drugs from there. The person is intimidated with threats of violence and bullying or enticed through the offer of drugs. The person being cuckooed often won’t want to raise concerns for fear of repercussions or violence. Victims of cuckooing can disengage with support groups or services and be unwilling to talk about what is happening at their home when the subject is raised with them.
Signs to look out for:
More visitors to the property than usual, often visiting for short periods of time, new associates hanging around, bags of clothes, bedding or other unusual signs that people may be staying there, lots of vehicles outside for short times, including taxis, discarded syringes, foil or other evidence of drug use, more local anti-social behaviour than normal, including lots of stolen bikes.
What to do:
If you’re worried that someone is being cuckooed, contact Sussex Police by emailing: 101@sussex.pnn.police.uk with an email title OPERATION CUCKOO, providing as much detail as possible or for further advice ring the Safer Communities Team on 01273 292735 or community support from the LGBT CSF on 01273 855620.
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