Drugs and Their Effects
Australian guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol
Alcohol is the most widely used drug in Australia. People drink alcohol for a range of reasons and in different social and cultural contexts, but alcohol can cause harm to the person who drinks and sometimes to others around them.
NHMRC has guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol. The guidelines provide health professionals, policy makers and the Australian community with evidence-based advice on the health effects of drinking alcohol. They also help people make informed decisions about how much alcohol they drink, if any.
Nitazenes are extremely potent synthetic opioids with pain relieving effects.
It might also be referred to as:
benzimidazole opioids, etonitazene, flunitazene, iso, isotonitazene, meto, metonitazene, New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), nitazine, proton, protonitazene, synthetic opioids
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Lean is a mixture of cough syrup (containing codeine and promethazine) and soft drink.
It might also be referred to as:
Barre, Candy Drank, Codeine and Promethazine, Dirty Sprite, Muddy Cap, Oil, Player Potion, Purp, Purple Concussion, Purple Drank, Purple Jelly, Purple Oil, Purple Stuff, Purple Tonic, Robo Tripping, Sip-Sip, Sizzurp, Syrup, Texas Tea
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Thujone is a hallucinogenic drug which confuses the messages between the body and brain.
It might also be referred to as:
Absinthe, Wormwood
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Synthetic Cannabis is a man-made drug which is meant to provide similar effects to THC, a component in Cannabis. Because these drugs are very new, we don't know much about their effects.
It might also be referred to as:
Black Mamba, Herbal Incense, Herbal Smoking Blend, JWH-018, JWH-2250, JWH-73, K2, Kaos, Nothern Lights, Spice, Spice Product
PCP is a hallucinogenic drug which confuses the messages between the body and brain.
It might also be referred to as:
Amoeba, Angel Dust, Boat, Crystal Joints, Dips, Doa, Elephant Tranquiliser, Embalming Fluid, Hob, Jet Fuel, Killer Weed, Krystal Joints, Love Boats, Magic Dust, Mint Weed, Monkey Bust, Paz, PCP, Peace Pill, Phencyclidine, Pinners, Sernyl, Sherms, Superkools, Wac, Water, Zombie
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Opioids are depressant drugs which slow down the messages between the body and brain.
It might also be referred to as:
Apache, Beige, Beige Powder, Beige Powder, Big H, Big Harry, Big O, Black Tar, Black Tar, Blatt, Block, Blow Horse, Brown Rocks, Brown Rocks, Brown Sugar, Bugger, Captain Cody, Captain Jack, Chase, China Brown, China Girl, China H, China White, Chinese H, Chinese Rock, Chitari, Codeine, Dolly, Dolophine, Done, Dope, Dose, Dragon, Dragon Powder, Dust, Elephant, Fentanyl, Fix, Gear, H, Hammer, Harry, Harry, Heroin, Hop, Horse, Horse, Jackpot, Joy Powder, Jungle Juice, Junk, Junk, Junk, Loads, M, Meth, Methadone, Methadone Linctus, Methadone Mixture, Metho, Mexican Brown, Miss Emma, Monkey, Morf, Morph, Morphine, MS Contin, Murder 8, Number 4 White, O, Opium, Petrol, Physeptanef Injections, Physeptone Tablets, Pink Rocks, Piss, Poison, Poppies, Pure, Rock, Scag, Scat, Schoolboy, Shit, Skag, Skunk, Slow, Smack, Stuff, The Grouse, Thing, Vitamin H, Whack, White, White Dynamite, White Horse
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Nicotine is a stimulant drug which speeds up the messages between the body and brain.
It might also be referred to as:
Acetone, Ammonia, Bidis, Cancer Stick, Carbon Monoxide, Chew, Cigarette, Cigarettes, Cigars, Ciggie, Darts, Durry, Duzza, Fag, Fags, Gaspers, Hydrogen Cyanide, Nicotine, Papers, Rolly, Smoke, Smokers, Smoking, Smoko, Tar, Tobacco
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Naloxone is a medicine which can quickly reverse an opioid overdose.
It might also be referred to as:
Narcan
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Methamphetamine is a stimulant drug which speeds up the messages between the body and brain.
It might also be referred to as:
Amphetamine Type Stimulant, ATS, Crank, Crystal, Crystal Meth, Dope, Glass, Go-Fast, Ice, Meth, Quartz, Shard, Shit, Tina, Tweak
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Methadone is a medicine usually used to treat opioid dependence. It is a depressant drug which slows down the messages between the body and brain.
It might also be referred to as:
Methadone Mixture, Methadone Linctus, Pharmacotherapy, Opioid Substitution Therapy, OST
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Mescaline is a hallucinogenic drug which confuses the messages between the body and brain.
It might also be referred to as:
Buttons, Cactus, Mesc, Mescal Buttons, Peyote
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