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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • The Barbituric acid compound was made from malonic apple acid and animal urea.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.

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