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Drug Facts

  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • 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
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • 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.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Bath Salt use has been linked to violent behavior, however not all stories are violent.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines,2 marijuana and heroin.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.

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