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Drug Facts

  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • 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 most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Rohypnol has no odor or taste so it can be put into someone's drink without being detected, which has lead to it being called the "Date Rape Drug".
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.

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