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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • Overdose deaths linked to Benzodiazepines, like Ativan, have seen a 4.3-fold increase from 2002 to 2015.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Over 23.5 million people are in need of treatment for illegal drugs like Flakka.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • GHB is often referred to as Liquid Ecstasy, Easy Lay, Liquid X and Goop

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