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Drug Facts

  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • Stimulants can increase energy and enhance self esteem.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Barbiturates Caused the death of many celebrities such as Jimi Hendrix and Marilyn Monroe

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