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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Cocaine has long been used for its ability to boost energy, relieve fatigue and lessen hunger.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Cocaine hydrochloride is most commonly snorted. It can also be injected, rubbed into the gums, added to drinks or food.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • 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.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.

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