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Drug Facts

  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Meth users often have bad teeth from poor oral hygiene, dry mouth as meth can crack and deteriorate teeth.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.

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