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Drug Facts

  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • 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.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.

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