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Drug Facts

  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.

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