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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Because of the tweaker's unpredictability, there have been reports that they can react violently, which can lead to involvement in domestic disputes, spur-of-the-moment crimes, or motor vehicle accidents.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.

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