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Drug Facts

  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • High dosages of ketamine can lead to the feeling of an out of body experience or even death.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • Crack Cocaine is the riskiest form of a Cocaine substance.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.

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