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Drug Facts

  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Crack comes in solid blocks or crystals varying in color from yellow to pale rose or white.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • LSD can stay in one's system from a few hours to five days.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.

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