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in Puerto-rico

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Drug Facts

  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • 5,477 individuals were found guilty of crack cocaine-related crimes. More than 95% of these offenders had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.

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