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Drug Facts

  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • 5,477 individuals were found guilty of crack cocaine-related crimes. More than 95% of these offenders had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • GHB is often referred to as Liquid Ecstasy, Easy Lay, Liquid X and Goop

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