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Drug Facts

  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • 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.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • Coke Bugs or Snow Bugs are an illusion of bugs crawling underneath one's skin and often experienced by Crack Cocaine users.
  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.

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