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Drug Facts

  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Penalties for possession, delivery and manufacturing of Ecstasy can include jail sentences of four years to life, and fines from $250,000 to $4 million, depending on the amount of the drug you have in your possession.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • 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.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Over 750,000 people have used LSD within the past year.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • 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
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.

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