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Drug Facts

  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • In 2010, U.S. Poison Control Centers received 304 calls regarding Bath Salts.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • 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
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • 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.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.

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