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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • 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.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • 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.
  • Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.

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