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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • In 1860, the United States was home to 1,138 Alcohol distilleries that produced over 88 million gallons each year.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Cigarettes can kill you and they are the leading preventable cause of death.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.

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