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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.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • K2 and Spice are synthetic marijuana compounds, also known as cannabinoids.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.

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