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Drug Facts

  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Never, absolutely NEVER, buy drugs over the internet. It is not as safe as walking into a pharmacy. You honestly do not know what you are going to get or who is going to intervene in the online message.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • Bath salts contain man-made stimulants called cathinone's, which are like amphetamines.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Its rock form is far more addictive and potent than its powder form.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines,2 marijuana and heroin.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that more than 9.5% of youths aged 12 to 17 in the US were current illegal drug users.

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