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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • 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.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • Brand names of Bath Salts include Blizzard, Blue Silk, Charge+, Ivory Snow, Ivory Wave, Ocean Burst, Pure Ivory, Purple Wave, Snow Leopard, Stardust, Vanilla Sky, White Dove, White Knight and White Lightning.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.

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