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Drug Facts

  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • There are approximately 5,000 LSD-related emergency room visits per year.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.

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