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Drug Facts

  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Crack comes in solid blocks or crystals varying in color from yellow to pale rose or white.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • About 1 in 4 college students report academic consequences from drinking, including missing class, falling behind in class, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.30
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • 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.

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