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Drug Facts

  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports 85 percent of inmates arrive at the state prison with a history of substance abuse.

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