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DRUGS and GLOBAL TRENDS
Captain / Yousuf Ahmed AL-Balushi
Head of Regional and International
What are drugs? Cocaine is a powerful natural stimulant. It is
extracted from the leaves of the coca plant
It is any chemical substance that has a direct that grows in South America, where the people
effect on the performance of the human body chew it or drink it to energize and overcome
in its natural state, but not all drugs are illegal. exhaustion.
There are many types of drugs, but some are
legal. For example, alcohol, caffeine in coffee, Ecstasy is a type of psychoactive stimulant
nicotine in tobacco, and medicines. Humans derived from amphetamine. This type of
use medicines to treat diseases and relieve stimulant has a complex effect on the brain
pain. However, some of the drugs have serious and body. This type of stimulant is made in the
side effects, which led to the imposition of strict form of tablets with a logo or in the form of a
control over them by most countries of the powder.
world. Heroin is obtained from morphine which
extracted from the opium poppy plant. A
Types of Drugs strong narcotic of the central nervous system
and causes strong physical and psychological
Cannabis is also known as marijuana. It is addiction. There are two types of heroin, white
a psychoactive drug extracted from the and brown. White heroin is pure heroin, which is
cannabis plant. It has various mental and mostly injected. The other type is brown heroin,
physical effects. The color of this drug tends to it is known as street heroin, and this type is
be green or brown and it is smoked or can be smoked.
ingested after adding to food products.
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