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Drug Facts

  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Millions of dollars per month are spent trafficking illegal drugs.
  • Authority receive over 10,500 reports of clonazepam abuse every year, and the rate is increasing.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.

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