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Drug Facts

  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Ritalin is easy to get, and cheap.
  • Because of the tweaker's unpredictability, there have been reports that they can react violently, which can lead to involvement in domestic disputes, spur-of-the-moment crimes, or motor vehicle accidents.

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