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Drug Facts

  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • 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.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.

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