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Drug Facts

  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Many people wrongly imprisoned under conspiracy laws are women who did nothing more than pick up a phone and take a message for their spouse, boyfriend, child or neighbor.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • 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.

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