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Drug Facts

  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.

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