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There's A Heroin Clinic in Switzerland Where No One Has Died of Overdose.

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The Incas revered the coca plant as being sacred or magical.

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Taking cocaine increases the chance of having a heart attack within the hour by 2,400%.

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Worldwide sales of cocaine earn more than Microsoft, McDonald's, and Kellogg's combined.

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1 in 40 people in Scotland uses cocaine, the highest rate in the world.

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75% of all suicide attempts are by self-poisoning with drugs, and 97% of those cases survive.

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Ozzy Osborne had his genome sequenced to better understand how he's still alive after years of hard drug and alcohol abuse.

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More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.

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

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

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There's More to Addiction Than The Type of Drug Used.

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Kids Are More Likely to Get Illegal Drugs Than Cigarettes or Alcohol.

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There's A Heroin Clinic in Switzerland Where No One Has Died of Overdose.

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More than 85% of People Who Use Heroin Don't Become Addicts.

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Cocaine only cost $700/kg to produce, but sells in the US for $100/gram.

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In 1994, a 75-pound bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Florida crime watch meeting.

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Cocaine can cause you to forget some of your memories.

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Children and teens who use alcohol and drugs are more likely to have a substance use disorder as adults.

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Nearly half of college students use illicit drugs.

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Study after study has found that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.

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42% of people in the U.S. have tried marijuana at least once.

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Only about 9% of marijuana users become clinically dependent, according to a study.

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