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Drug Facts

  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • Taking Steroids raises the risk of aggression and irritability to over 56 percent.
  • Women in bars can suffer from sexually aggressive acts if they are drinking heavily.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Getting blackout drunk doesn't actually make you forget: the brain temporarily loses the ability to make memories.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.

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