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Drug Facts

  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • 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.
  • About 1 in 4 college students report academic consequences from drinking, including missing class, falling behind in class, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.30

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