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Drug Facts

  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • 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 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.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Drugs and alcohol do not discriminate no matter what your gender, race, age or political affiliation addiction can affect you if you let it.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Crystal Meth is commonly known as glass or ice.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.

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