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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Bath salts contain man-made stimulants called cathinone's, which are like amphetamines.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • 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.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.

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