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Drug Facts

  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • The most prominent drugs being abused in Alabama and requiring rehabilitation were Marijuana, Alcohol and Cocaine in 2006 5,927 people were admitted for Marijuana, 3,446 for Alcohol and an additional 2,557 admissions for Cocaine and Crack.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.
  • About 1 in 4 college students report academic consequences from drinking, including missing class, falling behind in class, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.30
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.

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