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Drug Facts

  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • 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.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • From 1920- 1933, the illegal trade of Alcohol was a booming industry in the U.S., causing higher rates of crime than before.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • 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.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.

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