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Drug Facts

  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • 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
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • 1 in every 9 high school seniors has tried synthetic marijuana (also known as 'Spice' or 'K2').
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.

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