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Drug Facts

  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.

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