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Drug Facts

  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • 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.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 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.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • 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.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • Stimulants can increase energy and enhance self esteem.
  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Never, absolutely NEVER, buy drugs over the internet. It is not as safe as walking into a pharmacy. You honestly do not know what you are going to get or who is going to intervene in the online message.

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