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Drug Facts

  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Cigarettes can kill you and they are the leading preventable cause of death.
  • 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.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • 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
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 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.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • The Barbituric acid compound was made from malonic apple acid and animal urea.
  • Approximately 28% of Utah adults 18-25 indicated binge drinking in the past months of 2006.

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