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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Interventions can facilitate the development of healthy interpersonal relationships and improve the participant's ability to interact with family, peers, and others in the community.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Approximately 35,000,000 Americans a year have been admitted into the hospital due abusing medications like Darvocet.
  • There are innocent people behind bars because of the drug conspiracy laws.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • After hitting the market, Ativan was used to treat insomnia, vertigo, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.

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