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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • 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.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.

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