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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • 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.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.

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