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Drug Facts

  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • 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.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • 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.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • In 2010, 42,274 emergency rooms visits were due to Ambien.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.

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