Drug Facts

A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
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
Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
Crack Cocaine is the riskiest form of a Cocaine substance.
Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.