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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous and potent drugs, with the great potential of causing seizures and heart-related injuries such as stopping the heart, whether one is a short term or long term user.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • There are innocent people behind bars because of the drug conspiracy laws.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.

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