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Drug Facts

  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • Penalties for possession, delivery and manufacturing of Ecstasy can include jail sentences of four years to life, and fines from $250,000 to $4 million, depending on the amount of the drug you have in your possession.
  • Even if you smoke just a few cigarettes a week, you can get addicted to nicotine in a few weeks or even days. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely you are to become addicted.
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • 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
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.

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