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Drug Facts

  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.

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