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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Dual Diagnosis treatment is specially designed for those suffering from an addiction as well as an underlying mental health issue.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.

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