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Drug Facts

  • Second hand smoke can kill you. In the U.S. alone over 3,000 people die every year from cancer caused by second hand smoke.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • Ambien can cause severe allergic reactions such as hives, breathing problems and swelling of the mouth, tongue and throat.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.

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