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Drug Facts

  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • Crystal Meth is commonly known as glass or ice.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • 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.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.

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