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Drug Facts

  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • 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.

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