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Drug Facts

  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • In 2010, U.S. Poison Control Centers received 304 calls regarding Bath Salts.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • 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
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Other names of ecstasy include Eckies, E, XTC, pills, pingers, bikkies, flippers, and molly.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.

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