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Drug Facts

  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • 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
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • 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.
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.

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