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Drug Facts

  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • 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.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.

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