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Drug Facts

  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.

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