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Drug Facts

  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • 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.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • The Barbituric acid compound was made from malonic apple acid and animal urea.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.

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