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Drug Facts

  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • GHB is often referred to as Liquid Ecstasy, Easy Lay, Liquid X and Goop

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