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Drug Facts

  • Crack Cocaine is the riskiest form of a Cocaine substance.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • 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.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Getting blackout drunk doesn't actually make you forget: the brain temporarily loses the ability to make memories.

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