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Drug Facts

  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.

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