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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • 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
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • 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
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.

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