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Drug Facts

  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • Bath Salts cause brain swelling, delirium, seizures, liver failure and heart attacks.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • In 2010, U.S. Poison Control Centers received 304 calls regarding Bath Salts.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • 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.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.

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