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Drug Facts

  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.

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