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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • GHB is a popular drug at teen parties and "raves".
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • 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.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'

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