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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Over 750,000 people have used LSD within the past year.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.

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