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Drug Facts

  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • 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.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • 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.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Taking Steroids raises the risk of aggression and irritability to over 56 percent.

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