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Drug Facts

  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.

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