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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • Nearly 2/3 of those found in addiction recovery centers report sexual or physical abuse as children.
  • 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
  • Ketamine is popular at dance clubs and "raves", unfortunately, some people (usually female) are not aware they have been dosed.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.

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