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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • GHB is a popular drug at teen parties and "raves".
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Second hand smoke can kill you. In the U.S. alone over 3,000 people die every year from cancer caused by second hand smoke.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • 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
  • Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.

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