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Drug Facts

  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.
  • Over 20 million individuals were abusing Darvocet before any limitations were put on the drug.
  • Alcohol Abuse is the 3rd leading cause of preventable deaths in the U.S with over 88,000 cases of Alcohol related deaths.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.

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