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Drug Facts

  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Mixing Adderall with Alcohol increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.

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