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Drug Facts

  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.

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