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Drug Facts

  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • 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
  • 26.7% of 10th graders reported using Marijuana.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • Millions of dollars per month are spent trafficking illegal drugs.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.

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