True or False

Oldham Alcohol Substance Intervention Service

Brown and Black are both street names for cannabis.

False: Brown is the street name for heroin and black is commonly used for Cannabis resin

Having a small amount of cannabis for personal use is legal?

False: Cannabis is still Illegal and is a class c drug.

Ecstasy is a downer drug which slows you down.

False: It is an upper that makes people more energetic - it's a stimulant drug.

It takes the liver 3 hours to break down 1 unit of alcohol.

False: It takes the liver one hour to break down one unit of alcohol.

The legal limit for drinking and driving is about 3 pints of normal beer.

False: It's nearer 2 and a half pints for men and 2 pints for women. It varies depending on how heavy people are.

Cannabis is a completely safe drug to take.

False: No drug is 100% safe to take. You cannot die overdosing on cannabis but it can lead to a criminal record, make accidents more likely and lead to unsafe sex. It can also make you paranoid, anxious and lead you to do dangerous things.

Sniffing glue is usually more dangerous than sniffing gas.

False: Squirting gas straight down the throat is particularly dangerous and has led to almost instant death.

Smoking heroin is not as addictive as injecting it?

False: The addiction is to the drug - not the way it is taken. By smoking the risks are reduced not the potential to develop an addiction.

Heroin kills more people in this country than any other drug.

False: Tobacco kills over 110,000 people a year in the UK, alcohol results in 25-35,000 deaths and heroin deaths are a few hundred.

Crack is a form of cocaine that is smoked.

True

Cigarettes contain more than 4000 different chemicals.

True, there are about 4,500 different chemicals including mercury, arsenic and embalming fluid. About 60 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer in humans.

Cocaine is usually snorted up the nose.

True.

Drugs like heroin and ecstasy often have other things mixed in with them.

True: It is very difficult to know what is really in a powder or pill.

Over 70 young people have died after taking ecstasy.

True: Most have died from heat exhaustion from non-stop dancing in hot, crowded clubs.

Amphetamine (speed) keep you awake for a long time

True: They are 'upper' drugs. After taking them people often feel very tired and sleep for a long time.

Poppers are a gold coloured liquid.

True: They are usually sold in small bottles in clubs, pubs, sex and joke shops and some clothes and record shops.