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Drug Facts

  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • In the year 2006 a total of 13,693 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs in Arkansas.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.

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