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Drug Facts

  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • 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.
  • When injected, Ativan can cause damage to cardiovascular and vascular systems.
  • 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.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.

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