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Drug Facts

  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Cocaine has long been used for its ability to boost energy, relieve fatigue and lessen hunger.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine, which normally comes in a powder form.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • 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.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.

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