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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • 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.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Over 200,000 people have abused Ketamine within the past year.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • 1 in every 9 high school seniors has tried synthetic marijuana (also known as 'Spice' or 'K2').
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.

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