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Drug Facts

  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Its rock form is far more addictive and potent than its powder form.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • 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.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.

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