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Drug Facts

  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • 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 is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.

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