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Drug Facts

  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • Cocaine use can cause the placenta to separate from the uterus, causing internal bleeding.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.

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