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Drug Facts

  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • The U.S. utilizes over 65% of the world's supply of Dilaudid.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • 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.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.

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