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Drug Facts

  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine. If you're a teenager, your risk is especially high.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Bath Salt use has been linked to violent behavior, however not all stories are violent.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.

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