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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.

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