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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Other names of Cocaine include C, coke, nose candy, snow, white lady, toot, Charlie, blow, white dust or stardust.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.

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