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Drug Facts

  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • Crystal Meth is the world's second most popular illicit drug.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • 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.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • Over 30 million people abuse Crystal Meth worldwide.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.

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