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Drug Facts

  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • The duration of cocaine's effects depends on the route of administration.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.

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