n, loss of interest in normal social life, severe lack of personal hygiene, and disappearance or shortage of cash" ("Teens and Drugs"). Parents can also look for drug paraphernalia, which is "any equipment, product or material of any kind which is primarily intended or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, concealing, producing, processing, preparing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance." ("Drugs and Violence: Bringing it Home").
             Some of the most commonly abused drugs in America are opiates, mushrooms, over-the-counter (OTC), LSD, alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana.
             The specific types of opiate drugs are morphine, codeine, heroin, meperidine, and methadone. Morphine is an analgesic, but the effects are so strong that morphine is highly abused. Codeine is a cough suppressant, but it is not so potent, therefore addicts rarely use it. Heroin was derived from mo
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