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Drug Facts

  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • 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.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Interventions can facilitate the development of healthy interpersonal relationships and improve the participant's ability to interact with family, peers, and others in the community.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.

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