Drug Facts in Lowell, MA

Continuous use of sedative prescription and illegal drugs leads to dependence on them. This is called drug addiction or substance abuse disorder. You crave for the drugs when you quit taking them or decrease their amount.

You cannot stop drug abuse on your own once you get addicted. It is because your body gets used to working in their presence. In the absence of these drugs, you suffer from traumatizing symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, headache, confusion, seizures, etc. These are called withdrawal symptoms. Their intensity varies from person to person and they differ in accordance with the drug being abused. 

Drug Facts

Following are some important and interesting facts about drugs and drug abuse:

· Most of the people start substance abuse from smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol. These people are mostly under 18.

·  Alcohol is the most popular drug throughout the world. Cocaine being on 7^th number in the list.Others are tobacco, cannabis, caffeinated energy drinks, MDMA and shisha tobacco.

· In the USA, every year, more than 100000 babies are born addicted to cocaine due to their mothers being addicted to it. They suffer from severe withdrawal symptoms.

·  National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) reported that more than 1/4^th people get addicted to heroin who tried it. Mostly, young adults do it for recreational purposes.

·        As per a study, more deaths have been reported due to prescription drug overdose as compared to illegal drug overdose.

·         Drugs are obtained from natural as well as synthetic sources.

·         Fentanyl is a synthetic drug whose potency is about 50 times more than heroin. Even its small amount can cause death.

·         Most of the people in the world are addicted to alcohol. 

·         Some drugs have excitatory effects on Central Nervous System (CNS) while others are CNS depressant.

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