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Drug Facts

  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.

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