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Drug Facts

  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • 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
  • Over 53 Million Oxycodone prescriptions are filled each year.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • There are approximately 5,000 LSD-related emergency room visits per year.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.

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