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Drug Facts

  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.
  • Cocaine use can cause the placenta to separate from the uterus, causing internal bleeding.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Alcohol Abuse is the 3rd leading cause of preventable deaths in the U.S with over 88,000 cases of Alcohol related deaths.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.

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