Emily Hamer's List: Common Drugs and Their Effects

• Use of prescription drugs for non-medical use is increasing at incredible rates.  Approximately 1.3 million citizens report abuse of prescription drugs each year.
• Prescription drugs are being abused more than heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine combined.  In 2006 more than 2.1 million teens abused prescription drugs and most teens get these drugs from friends and family
• marijuana today is far more intoxicating than 30 years ago.
• THC (delta-9-tetrhdrocannabinol) is believed to be responsible for the psychoactive effects of marijuana.
• increase of more than 500 percent.

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