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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • 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.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine, which normally comes in a powder form.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.

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