Club drugs are a group of popular drugs often found at parties and dances. One of the most common and dangerous club drugs is Ecstacy (MDMA). It is both an hallucinogen and a stimulant.
An hallucinogen can cause a variety of hallucinations, and affect thinking and sensory perception. A stimulant speeds up the central nervous system.
Other club drugs include Herbal Ecstacy, Ketamine, Rohypnol and GHB.
Dangerous?
Rohypnol and GHB (date rape drugs), and a few other drugs, are sometimes slipped into an unsuspecting person's drink, which makes the person drowsy or sleepy and mentally confused. The person becomes an easy target for kidnapping, sexual violence or robbery.
Club drugs are indeed dangerous -- far more dangerous than some may realize. They can cause death, or trigger a series of harmful health conditions, from seizure and heart attack to coma.
Your children can get into serious legal trouble by using these drugs, and they may become dependent upon them.
So never let your kids labor under the popular misconception that they are safe.
Reasons Kids Use Club Drugs
Kids may use drugs to gain social status and approval, release tension and have fun, avoid responsibilities and find the courage to face their problems.
Some may use these to commit a crime, putting a "date rape" drug in someone's drink, for example.
Safety
Adolescents often make the mistake of believing club drugs are not dangerous. They may think of them as innocent party drugs. And since they are widely used by their friends and people they trust, they appear to be quite safe.
Adolescents are still growing and developing, and they often do not make sound decisions when it comes to drugs and other potential hazards in their lives. And they believe myths about the safety of these and other drugs.
It's hard to know the effect of a drug on a person, since each may respond to a drug's chemical properties in a somewhat different way. Plus, your teenager cannot know what other ingredients are mixed in with ones they are taking. And there is no way of knowing how much of the club drug is present in the mixture.
Therefore, the effects of these drugs are unpredictable.
Tips
1. Take club drugs seriously
2. Talk to your teenager about the dangers of these drugs
3. If you need more accurate information, take time to learn more about these dangerous drugs before talking to your teen about them.
4. Use specific and accurate language when discussing these drugs with your kids so they realize you know what you are talking about. Otherwise, they may dismiss your ideas as mistaken and old hat.
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