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Drug Facts

  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • 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.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • The duration of cocaine's effects depends on the route of administration.
  • 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
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.

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