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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • 5,477 individuals were found guilty of crack cocaine-related crimes. More than 95% of these offenders had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.

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