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Drug Facts

  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • High dosages of ketamine can lead to the feeling of an out of body experience or even death.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • According to a new survey, nearly two thirds of young women in the United Kingdom admitted to binge drinking so excessively they had no memory of the night before the next morning.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.

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