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Drug Facts

  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
  • 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.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • 28% of teens know at least 1 person who has tried ecstasy.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.

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