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Drug Facts

  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.

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