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Drug Facts

  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • 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.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.

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