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Drug Facts

  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • 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.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Ativan is one of the strongest Benzodiazepines on the market.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar

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