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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Ambien can cause severe allergic reactions such as hives, breathing problems and swelling of the mouth, tongue and throat.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.

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