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Drug Facts

  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Ambien is a sedative-hypnotic known to cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and death.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Substance Use Treatment at a Specialty Facility: Treatment received at a hospital (inpatient only), rehabilitation facility (inpatient or outpatient), or mental health center to reduce alcohol use, or to address medical problems associated with alcohol use.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • 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.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.

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