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NHS Choices. (2023) Drugs addiction: getting help.

External website: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/drugs/Pages/Drugsovervi...


Drug abuse can be harmful to your health. We look at some of the most commonly taken illegal drugs, what they are, and how they can affect you. 

  • Cannabis (hash, weed, grass, skunk, marijuana)
  • Cocaine (powder cocaine, coke, crack)
  • Mephedrone (meow meow, miaow miaow, meph)
  • Ecstasy (MDMA, pills, crystal, E)
  • Speed (amphetamine, billy, whizz)
Item Type
Webpage
Publication Type
International, Web Resource
Drug Type
Cannabis, CNS stimulants, Cocaine, Inhalents and solvents, New psychoactive substance
Intervention Type
Prevention, Harm reduction, Education and training, Rehabilitation/Recovery, Screening / Assessment
Source
NHS Choices
Date
13 February 2023
Publisher
NHS Choices
Corporate Creators
NHS Choices
Place of Publication
London
EndNote
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Subjects
A Substance use and dependence > Effects or consequences
B Substances > Cannabis / Marijuana
B Substances > CNS stimulants > Amphetamines
B Substances > CNS stimulants > MDMA / Ecstasy
B Substances > Cocaine
B Substances > New (novel) psychoactive substances > Synthetic cathinones > Mephedrone
G Health and disease > Substance use disorder (addiction) > Drug use disorder
T Demographic characteristics > Substance or health care worker / provider
T Demographic characteristics > Nurse / Midwife
T Demographic characteristics > Prevention / youth worker
T Demographic characteristics > Social worker
VA Geographic area > Europe > United Kingdom

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