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Drug Facts

  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • 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.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports 85 percent of inmates arrive at the state prison with a history of substance abuse.
  • 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.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines,2 marijuana and heroin.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.

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