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Drug Facts

  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • 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.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Many people wrongly imprisoned under conspiracy laws are women who did nothing more than pick up a phone and take a message for their spouse, boyfriend, child or neighbor.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Bath Salts cause brain swelling, delirium, seizures, liver failure and heart attacks.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Psychic side effects of hallucinogens include the disassociation of time and space.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.

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