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Drug Facts

  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • 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.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.

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