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Drug Facts

  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Crystal meth is short for crystal methamphetamine.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Penalties for possession, delivery and manufacturing of Ecstasy can include jail sentences of four years to life, and fines from $250,000 to $4 million, depending on the amount of the drug you have in your possession.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • 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.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • 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.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • 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
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.

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