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Drug Facts

  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • 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.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Ketamine is popular at dance clubs and "raves", unfortunately, some people (usually female) are not aware they have been dosed.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.

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