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Drug Facts

  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • 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.
  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • 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.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.

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