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Drug Facts

  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Crack Cocaine is the riskiest form of a Cocaine substance.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants

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