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Drug Facts

The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
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.
There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
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.
93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.

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