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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Nearly 2/3 of those found in addiction recovery centers report sexual or physical abuse as children.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Ecstasy comes in a tablet form and is usually swallowed. The pills come in different colours and sizes and are often imprinted with a picture or symbol1. It can also come as capsules, powder or crystal/rock.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • Ritalin is easy to get, and cheap.

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