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Other Drugs - Information
Links to articles and facts related to other drugs.
Facts / Resources
Common Drugs of Abuse: A one page chart that includes: Drug Name/Trade Name/Dependence/Effects in Hours/Effects of Overdose/Withdrawal Symptoms
www.drugfree.org: Website includes a search (lower right corner) by drug name, which includes description and effects.
A New Danger: Cough Medicine Abuse
www.streetdrugs.org: Includes published reports of drug use, a drug index, and signs of drug use
A New Danger: Cough Medicine Abuse: Teens are abusing legal products like cough syrup at alarming rates. According to the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, one in 11 teens has used cough medicine to get high.
Go to StopMedicineAbuse.org for more information.
DrugFree.org Need Help? Get Help! Drug prevention, drug abuse, drug intervention, drug treatment and recovery. Drugfree.org provides answers, guidance, tips and stories.
Know!: For parents of middle schoolers to increase awareness and communication about alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention.
Articles
Drug Slang: "It's very important that parents brush up on ... slang, because just like with text messaging, kids use all these abbreviations and parents don’t know what they mean. But the more they understand what these things mean, the more they will be able to monitor kids’ behavior," says Gregory Pollock, a psychotherapist specializing in addiction at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio.
Study Suggests Teens Can Get Addicted and Relapse More Easily Than Adults
New research suggests that teens may get addicted to drugs and relapse more easily than adults because developing brains are more powerfully motivated by drug-related cues. The research, performed at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School's largest psychiatric facility, was reported in the April issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, published by the American Psychological Association. < Read more>
Fentanyl
Fatal Euphoria: Breathtakingly powerful, often mixed with heroin, it could kill in seconds. An illicit form of the drug fentanyl spread through metro Detroit, avoiding much attention throught last year until its high victim count finally set off alarms.
Read Complete Investigative Report from the Detroit Free Press June 24, 2007.
