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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • GHB is often referred to as Liquid Ecstasy, Easy Lay, Liquid X and Goop
  • 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.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • 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.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • 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.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • 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
  • In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.

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