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Drug Facts

  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • 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.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • 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.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Over 53 Million Oxycodone prescriptions are filled each year.

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