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Drug Facts

  • Some common names for anabolic steroids are Gear, Juice, Roids, and Stackers.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • 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.
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.

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