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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine. If you're a teenager, your risk is especially high.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.

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