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WHAT ARE SOME OF THE NEW DRUGS ON THE STREET?

There are new drugs out there these days. They’re spreading fast because people often get them on the Internet. Sometimes they’re called “designer drugs,” because they’ve been specially designed to create certain effects in their users. They may be like older drugs in some ways, but their chemicals have been modified in some way. People have worked on them to make them stronger or to try to get rid of side effects. These new drugs are different from the old ones. Some of them are even legal, so kids think they must be safe. A lot of these drugs have psychedelic prop- erties. This means they change the way your brain perceives things. Everything may seem brighter and more intense. Life may seem more meaningful. But these drugs have a big downside.

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