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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • 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
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.

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