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Drug Facts

  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Nearly one third of mushroom users reported heightened levels of anxiety.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • In 2010, U.S. Poison Control Centers received 304 calls regarding Bath Salts.
  • 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.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • 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.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.

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