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Drug Facts

  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • 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.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.

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