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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Approximately 35,000,000 Americans a year have been admitted into the hospital due abusing medications like Darvocet.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • 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.
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.

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