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Drug Facts

  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • 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.
  • Crystal meth is short for crystal methamphetamine.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.

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