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Drug Facts

  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine, which normally comes in a powder form.
  • There are many types of drug and alcohol rehab available throughout the world.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.

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