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Drug Facts

  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Over 30 million people abuse Crystal Meth worldwide.
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.

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