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Drug Facts

  • Codeine taken with alcohol can cause mental clouding, reduced coordination and slow breathing.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • 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.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.

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