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Drug Facts

  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • 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.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Nitrous oxide is actually found in whipped cream dispensers as well as octane boosters for cars.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.

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