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Drug Facts

  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Cigarettes can kill you and they are the leading preventable cause of death.
  • Those who complete prison-based treatment and continue with treatment in the community have the best outcomes.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.

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