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Drug Facts

  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Other names of Cocaine include C, coke, nose candy, snow, white lady, toot, Charlie, blow, white dust or stardust.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Crystal meth comes in clear chunky crystals resembling ice and is most commonly smoked.
  • In 2009, a Wisconsin man sleepwalked outside and froze to death after taking Ambien.

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