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Drug Facts

  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Texas is one of the hardest states on drug offenses.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • 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'.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.

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