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Drug Facts

  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • 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.
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.

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