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Drug Facts

  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • 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 course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Even if you smoke just a few cigarettes a week, you can get addicted to nicotine in a few weeks or even days. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely you are to become addicted.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.

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