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Drug Facts

  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • 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
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Ecstasy is one of the most popular drugs among youth today.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • 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.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.

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