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Drug Facts

  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Steroid use can lead to clogs in the blood vessels, which can then lead to strokes and heart disease.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • In 2010, 42,274 emergency rooms visits were due to Ambien.
  • 31% of rock star deaths are related to drugs or alcohol.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.

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