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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • 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.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.

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