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Drug Facts

  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • 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.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.

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