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Drug Facts

  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • 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.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Illegal drug use is declining while prescription drug abuse is rising thanks to online pharmacies and illegal selling.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • 12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 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.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.

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