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Drug Facts

  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • LSD (or its full name: lysergic acid diethylamide) is a potent hallucinogen that dramatically alters your thoughts and your perception of reality.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • 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
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • Crystal Meth is commonly known as glass or ice.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.

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