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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • 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.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • After hitting the market, Ativan was used to treat insomnia, vertigo, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • Because of the tweaker's unpredictability, there have been reports that they can react violently, which can lead to involvement in domestic disputes, spur-of-the-moment crimes, or motor vehicle accidents.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.

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