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Drug Facts

  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • 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.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • 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.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.

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