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Drug Facts

  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Nitrous oxide is actually found in whipped cream dispensers as well as octane boosters for cars.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.

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