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Drug Facts

  • Even if you smoke just a few cigarettes a week, you can get addicted to nicotine in a few weeks or even days. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely you are to become addicted.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • 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.

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