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Drug Facts

  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.

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