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Drug Facts

  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.

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