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Drug Facts

  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • 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.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • In Alabama during the year 2006 a total of 20,340 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.

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