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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Cocaine comes in two forms. One is a powder and the other is a rock. The rock form of cocaine is referred to as crack cocaine.
  • Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.

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