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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.

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