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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Rohypnol has no odor or taste so it can be put into someone's drink without being detected, which has lead to it being called the "Date Rape Drug".
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.

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