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Drug Facts

  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.

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