1. Soft Drugs, Tobacco and Alcohol

2. Drug dealer
A drug dealer
sells drugs.

3. Drug sniffing dogs
These dogs can smell drugs
in someone’s bag.
They usually work at the
airport, or help police.

4. Drug violence
Thousands of people
die or are arrested
every year because
of drugs.

5. Marijuana (pot, weed, herb, ganja)
A marijuana pipe
and joint.A marijuana bud หน่อ

6. Bodily effects of marijuana

7. Marijuana is much stronger than it
used to be
THC is the chemical
in marijuana that
makes you high.
Over time, THC has
gone up because of
new ways of
growing.

8. Increased appetite ความอยาก (the
munchies)

9. Marijuana can make you slow and
stupid, and hurt your short term
memory

10. Marijuana can make you anxiousหวั่นไหว
paranoid and depressed เศร้าใจ

11. Artificial marijuana
Spice was
popular a few
years ago, but is
becoming illegal.

12. Health benefits of marijuana
Marijuana is used as medicine in many places.
• Pain relief
• Preventing blindness from glaucoma
• Stops nausea and vomiting
• Helps insomnia

13. LSD
LSD was first made in
the 1940’s.
It is a strong and
dangerous drug.

14. Magic Mushrooms
Magic
mushrooms are
similar to LSD.

15. Hallucination จิตหลอน
This woman is having a “bad
trip”.

16. steroids
Steroids will make you
big, but will ruin your
health.

17. Tobacco
Tobacco plants A cigarettes being rolled

18. Which looks more crazy and stupid?

19. Teeth stains and wrinkles

20. Chewing tobacco
Chewing tobacco is just as dangerous as smoking.

21. nicotine
• Nicotine is a very addictive substance.
• Nicotine will give you a “buzz” or a high
feeling.
• It will affect your hormones and increase your
risk of diabetes and heart disease.

22. Nicotine patch
Can help people stop smoking.

23. Second hand smoke
Second hand smoke kills
people.
It is just as bad as first
hand smoke.
Don’t smoke around
other people.

26. Smoking while pregnant will hurt your
baby!

27. Lung cancer มะเร็งปอด and
emphysema โรคถุงลมโป่งพอง

28. Taxes on tobacco
• Cigarettes have become very expensive in some places

29. alcohol
Alcohol is a legal
drug. It is popular
around the world.
Alcohol makes you
drunk.

30. Alcohol is useful in our cars!
Most gasoline in
Thailand has ethanol in
it.
Ethanol is the same as
the alcohol people
drink.

31. prohibition
Alcohol was illegal
in America from
1920-1933.
But people drank
anyway.

32. Legal drinking age map

33. Drinking makes you do stupid things
Be careful with your
phone when you are
drunk.
This man is passed out
in the toilet.

34. Girls protect each other in pairs
When girls get drunk
at a party, they
should look out for
each other.
Some men want to
take advantage of a
drunk girl.

35. What is “one drink”?

36. Blood alcohol level chart

37. breathalyser
A breathalyzer
measures how
much alcohol is
in your blood.
It is used by
police to catch
drunk drivers.

38. Alcohol poisoning
If someone passes out from alcohol poisoning,
make sure they are in a position that they
won’t choke on their vomit.

39. Memory blackouts
• If you drink alcohol very quickly, you are more
likely to have a loss of memory.

40. Symptoms of alcohol poisoning
• Mental confusion, stupor, coma, or person
cannot be woken up.
• Vomiting.
• Seizures.
• Slow breathing (fewer than eight breaths per
minute).
• Irregular breathing (10 seconds or more between
breaths).
• Hypothermia (low body temperature), bluish skin
color, paleness.

41. hangover
Symptoms: headache,
nausea, fatigue, dry
mouth, dizziness.
It is caused by
dehydration and
other factors.
Cheap alcohol often
gives people a worse
hangover.

42. Poor sleep
• Alcohol lowers your quality of sleep.
• You don’t dream as much when you are drunk.

43. Cirrhosis of the liver
Cirrhosis is scarring
of the liver.
It can lead to death.

44. Fetal alcohol syndrome

45. Alcoholics Anonymous “AA”
AA meetings help
alcoholics support
each other.
AA members get tokens
showing how long they have
been sober.

46. Role play
• One person has some marijuana, and wants
the other to smoke. They don’t want to.
• One person is having a “bad trip” on LSD. The
other is trying to help them.
• One person is a grandfather dying of lung
cancer from smoking. The other is a grandson
who smokes.

47. Questions
• What is the group that helps alcoholics?
• What happens in the morning after you drink
too much?
• What is a disease you can get from smoking?
• What are two bad effects of marijuana?
• What happens to people who do LSD and
magic mushrooms?
• What is the chemical in cigarettes that makes
people addicted?