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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • 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.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • 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.

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