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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • Crack comes in solid blocks or crystals varying in color from yellow to pale rose or white.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.

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