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Drug Facts

  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • After hitting the market, Ativan was used to treat insomnia, vertigo, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.

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