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Drug Facts

  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • Approximately 35,000,000 Americans a year have been admitted into the hospital due abusing medications like Darvocet.
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2

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