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Drug Facts

  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • 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.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Marijuana can stay in a person's system for 3-5 days, however, if you are a heavy user, it can be detected up to 30 days.
  • 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.
  • Drugs and alcohol do not discriminate no matter what your gender, race, age or political affiliation addiction can affect you if you let it.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • There is holistic rehab, or natural, as opposed to traditional programs which may use drugs to treat addiction.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • Almost 38 million people have admitted to have used cocaine in their lifetime.

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