Symptoms include altered perceptions, red eyes, dry mouth, reduced concentration and coordination, euphoria, laughing, and hunger. If you think your child may be smoking marijuana, you should look for rolling papers, pipes, dried plant material, odor of burnt hemp rose, and roach clips. Dangers of this drug include panic reaction, impaired short term memory, and addiction. Because these drugs can be consumed in a variety of ways, parents should look for capsules, tablets, microdots, and blotter squares. If you find any unlabeled pill, you may want to let your doctor inspect it because Ecstasy, which is growing in popularity, is made into numerous shapes and colors of pills and capsules.
Dangerous behavior includes unpredictable behavior, emotional instability, and violent behavior.
Cocaine is sometimes called coke, crack, base, or rock. Physical symptoms include brief intense euphoria, elevated blood pressure and heart rate, restlessness, excitement, feeling of well-being followed by depression. Dangers include addiction, heart attack, seizures, lung damage, severe depression, and paranoia. While many parents are aware of street drugs, many times we forget about the products we keep around our house that can also be used as a drug. Inhalants , such as gas, aerosols, glue, nitrites, Rush, and White Out are popular among junior high school students because of their easy accessibility.