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Drug Facts

  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • 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.
  • Codeine taken with alcohol can cause mental clouding, reduced coordination and slow breathing.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • 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.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.

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