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Drug Facts

  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Ketamine hydrochloride, or 'K,' is a powerful anesthetic designed for use during operations and medical procedures.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Aerosols are a form of inhalants that include vegetable oil, hair spray, deodorant and spray paint.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • 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.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.

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