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Drug Facts

  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • High dosages of ketamine can lead to the feeling of an out of body experience or even death.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.

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