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Drug Facts

  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.

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