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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • According to a new survey, nearly two thirds of young women in the United Kingdom admitted to binge drinking so excessively they had no memory of the night before the next morning.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • The U.S. poisoned industrial Alcohols made in the country, killing a whopping 10,000 people in the process.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.

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