Crack comes in solid blocks or crystals varying in color from yellow to pale rose or white.
Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
In addition, users may have cracked teeth due to extreme jaw-clenching during a Crystral Meth high.
Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
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