Drugs Facts

Chocolate contains a small amount of a marijuana-like chemical called anandamide -This directly affects the brain's pleasure center.

Out of the top 30 100m sprint times, only 9 were run by athletes not associated with doping, all 9 are by Usain Bolt.

The drug cocktail that allows AIDs patients to survive came along just months after Freddie Mercury died.

Men were more than twice as likely to have used a new psychoactive substance in the last year (0.5% compared with 0.2%).

Men were twice as likely as women to report using ecstasy (2.2% compared with 1.1%).

Men were more than twice as likely to report using powder cocaine than women (3.7% compared with 1.6%).

Men were nearly twice as likely as women to report using cannabis in the last year (9.5% compared with 4.8%).

72% of the deaths related to drug poisoning and misuse were men.

4.3% of all men are dependent on drugs, as compared to 1.9% of all women.

The current drug overdose rate in the state of Alabama is 16.3 (per 100,000).