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Drug Facts

  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • 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
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.

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