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Drug Facts

  • Even if you smoke just a few cigarettes a week, you can get addicted to nicotine in a few weeks or even days. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely you are to become addicted.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Ketamine hydrochloride, or 'K,' is a powerful anesthetic designed for use during operations and medical procedures.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • 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.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1

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