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Drug Facts

  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • 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.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • 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.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.

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