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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • 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.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines,2 marijuana and heroin.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.

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