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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 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.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.

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