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Drug Facts

  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine. If you're a teenager, your risk is especially high.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • Nitrous oxide is actually found in whipped cream dispensers as well as octane boosters for cars.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • In Alabama during the year 2006 a total of 20,340 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs.
  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.

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