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Drug Facts

  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • Because of the tweaker's unpredictability, there have been reports that they can react violently, which can lead to involvement in domestic disputes, spur-of-the-moment crimes, or motor vehicle accidents.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • 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.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • 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.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.

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