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Drug Facts

  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Authority obtains over 10,500 accounts of clonazepam abuse annually.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • 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.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Barbiturates Caused the death of many celebrities such as Jimi Hendrix and Marilyn Monroe

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