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Drug Facts

  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Cocaine comes in two forms. One is a powder and the other is a rock. The rock form of cocaine is referred to as crack cocaine.
  • Ambien can cause severe allergic reactions such as hives, breathing problems and swelling of the mouth, tongue and throat.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • 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.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.

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