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Drug Facts

  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 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.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Barbiturates Caused the death of many celebrities such as Jimi Hendrix and Marilyn Monroe
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.

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