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Drug Facts

  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that more than 9.5% of youths aged 12 to 17 in the US were current illegal drug users.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Nearly one third of mushroom users reported heightened levels of anxiety.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.

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