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Drug Facts

  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Authority obtains over 10,500 accounts of clonazepam abuse annually.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.

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