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Drug Facts

  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • 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.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • In 2014, there were over 39,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths in the United States
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.

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