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in Puerto-rico

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Drug Facts

  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 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.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Using Crack Cocaine, even once, can result in life altering addiction.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • 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.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.

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