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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol Abuse is the 3rd leading cause of preventable deaths in the U.S with over 88,000 cases of Alcohol related deaths.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • 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.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • 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
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • Psychic side effects of hallucinogens include the disassociation of time and space.
  • Over 500,000 individuals have abused Ambien.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Some common names for anabolic steroids are Gear, Juice, Roids, and Stackers.
  • Coke Bugs or Snow Bugs are an illusion of bugs crawling underneath one's skin and often experienced by Crack Cocaine users.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.

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