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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Cocaine hydrochloride is most commonly snorted. It can also be injected, rubbed into the gums, added to drinks or food.
  • 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.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • 1.3% of high school seniors have tired bath salts.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • High dosages of ketamine can lead to the feeling of an out of body experience or even death.

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