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Drug Facts

  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine. If you're a teenager, your risk is especially high.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.

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