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Drug Facts

  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • 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
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.

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