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Drug Facts

  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • 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
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • After hitting the market, Ativan was used to treat insomnia, vertigo, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • 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.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.

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