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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.

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