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Drug Facts

  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Rohypnol has no odor or taste so it can be put into someone's drink without being detected, which has lead to it being called the "Date Rape Drug".
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • 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
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • K2 and Spice are synthetic marijuana compounds, also known as cannabinoids.

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