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Drug Facts

  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Cocaine use can cause the placenta to separate from the uterus, causing internal bleeding.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Over 53 Million Oxycodone prescriptions are filled each year.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • 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.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.

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