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Drug Facts

  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Ketamine hydrochloride, or 'K,' is a powerful anesthetic designed for use during operations and medical procedures.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • 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
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.

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