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Drug Facts

  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • 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.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.

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