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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Ecstasy comes in a tablet form and is usually swallowed. The pills come in different colours and sizes and are often imprinted with a picture or symbol1. It can also come as capsules, powder or crystal/rock.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.

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