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Drug Facts

  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Oxycodone stays in the system 1-10 days.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.

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