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Drug Facts

  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • 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.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • 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.'

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