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Drug Facts

  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Inhalants are a form of drug use that is entirely too easy to get and more lethal than kids comprehend.
  • 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
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.

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