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Drug Facts

  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Bath Salt use has been linked to violent behavior, however not all stories are violent.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Ketamine hydrochloride, or 'K,' is a powerful anesthetic designed for use during operations and medical procedures.
  • Gangs, whether street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs or even prison gangs, distribute more drugs on the streets of the U.S. than any other person or persons do.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.

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