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Drug Facts

  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • After hitting the market, Ativan was used to treat insomnia, vertigo, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • 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.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.

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