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Drug Facts

  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Gangs, whether street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs or even prison gangs, distribute more drugs on the streets of the U.S. than any other person or persons do.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Millions of dollars per month are spent trafficking illegal drugs.
  • 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.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.

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