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Drug Facts

  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Other names of Cocaine include C, coke, nose candy, snow, white lady, toot, Charlie, blow, white dust or stardust.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.

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