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Drug Facts

  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.
  • 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.
  • In 2005, 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. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • 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.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.

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