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Drug Facts

  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
  • 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
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.

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