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Drug Facts

  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.
  • Meth users often have bad teeth from poor oral hygiene, dry mouth as meth can crack and deteriorate teeth.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Over 500,000 individuals have abused Ambien.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • 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
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Marijuana is actually dangerous, impacting the mind by causing memory loss and reducing ability.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.

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