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Drug Facts

  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • 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
  • When injected, Ativan can cause damage to cardiovascular and vascular systems.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Rohypnol has no odor or taste so it can be put into someone's drink without being detected, which has lead to it being called the "Date Rape Drug".
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.

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