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Drug Facts

  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • Getting blackout drunk doesn't actually make you forget: the brain temporarily loses the ability to make memories.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • 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illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.

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