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Which recreational drug is the most dangerous? The study found that heroin, crack cocaine and meth were the most harmful drugs to individuals, while alcohol, heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis were the most harmful to others. Overall, alcohol was found to be the most harmful, followed by heroin, crack cocaine, meth and tobacco. Cannabis came eighth down the list.
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- A Matter of Perspective. Asking the question “what is the world’s most dangerous drug” is fraught with complex political and social history – and many people believe all illegal drugs to be far more dangerous than legal ones. The legal status of various drugs is somewhat arbitrary, defined long ago in many Western nations by quirks of history.
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- 1. Arsenic 2. Strychnine 3. Nicotine If you guessed # 3, you are correct. The lethal dosage for a 150 pound adult is 60 mg. The lethal dosage for # 2 is 75 mg and the lethal dosage for # 1 is 200 mg. In other words, nicotine is three times as toxic as arsenic and one and one half times as toxic as strychnine.rsenic 2. Strychnine 3. Nicotine If you guessed # 3, you are correct. The lethal dosage for a 150 pound adult is 60 mg. The lethal dosage for # 2 is 75 mg and the lethal dosage for # 1 is 200 mg. In other words, nicotine is three times as toxic as arsenic and one and one half times as toxic as strychnine.
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- The most dangerous cyanides are hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and salts derived from it, such as potassium cyanide (KCN) and sodium cyanide (NaCN), among others. Also some compounds readily release HCN or the cyanide ion, such as trimethylsilyl cyanide (CH3)3SiCN upon contact with water and cyanoacrylates upon pyrolysis.
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The Worldâs Most Dangerous Scorpions This certainly holds true for the spitting thicktail which is regarded as the most dangerous scorpion in Southern Africa. With a lethal dose of 4.25 mg/kg, the venom itself is around the same potency as cyanide. The scorpions size and ability to deliver a large dose contribute to the thicktail’s reputation.
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The 20 Countries with the Harshest Drug Laws in the World Cambodia. In Cambodia, you can be sentenced to many years in prison or even life in prison for possessing drugs. Unlike many other South Asian countries, Cambodia does not mandate the death penalty for drug trafficking. Indonesia. Indonesian drug laws are harsh.
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The Most Commonly Abused Opiates Heroin: The Most Dangerous Opiate. One of the most dangerous drugs in the world, heroin claims countless lives each year. Smoking heroin, snorting heroin or shooting the drugs are the three most commonly used methods of ingesting the opiate. The last of these three is by far the most dangerous, as individuals who share dirty needles with other users after injecting heroin are at a high risk for contracting HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis.
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Fentanyl: drug 50 times more potent than heroin ravages New Hampshire Fentanyl: drug 50 times more potent than heroin ravages New Hampshire. Of 69 fatal overdose victims last year, 68% had taken the synthetic opioid, which Mexican cartels have learned to make and smuggle to interstate highways. Officer Shaun McKennedy’s first overdose call comes in at 6.39pm.
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North Korea's Kim Jong Nam Killed With VX, the 'Most Toxic Weapon Ever' A decade later, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo killed 12 people on the Tokyo subway using the less-toxic nerve agent sarin. The group also killed one person using VX. Victims of a sarin attack by doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo are taken to hospital in Tokyo, Japan, on March 20, 1995.
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Q: I can't pin programs to Windows 8 Start Screen http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/pin-a-program-to-the-taskbar. Refer the suggestions provided by Scott Atk on January 31, 2012 and check. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_cp-files/how-do-i-add-apps-or-files-to-the-start-screen-in/51bce01c-a8bd-4e58-ae51-7928a2c63686.
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"Drug officials: ""Fentanyl can kill you just by touching it""" Drug officials say fentanyl is a lethal drug that could kill someone just by touching it. Most people around the city of Albuquerque have never heard of fentanyl, but agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration want to change that here in New Mexico.
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State by State Lethal Injection Due to drug shortages, states have adopted new lethal-injection methods, including: ONE DRUG: Eight states have used a single-drug method for executions--a lethal dose of an anesthetic (Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington).
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Lethal injection Typically, three drugs are used in lethal injection. An anesthetic such as sodium thiopental or pentobarbital is used to induce unconsciousness, pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory arrest, and potassium chloride to stop the heart.
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10 Poisons Used To Kill People Well, actually, if ingested, a single leaf is lethal and that’s why it was used to make poison-tipped arrows. The berries of this plant are the most dangerous – consumption of ten of the attractive-looking berries is fatal. 7. Dimethylmercury.
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- 4. Heroin. Heroin is derived from the morphine found in opium and is one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs on the planet. It comes in all sorts of forms but its bottom line remains the same: users have no idea how powerful it is and there’s no way to anticipate how much of it can kill you.
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- most of women victims of human trafficking are sexually exploited forced into prostitution and sex tourism trafficking of women in the globalized world is slavery act and humiliation of their human dignity and sever threat to their existencetrafficking of women is a social problem which needs arising awareness about its negative impactost of women victims of human trafficking are sexually exploited forced into prostitution and sex tourism trafficking of women in the globalized world is slavery act and humiliation of their human dignity and sever threat to their existence
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Fentanyl, the drug that killed Prince, is stronger than heroin and morphine Fentanyl, the drug that killed Prince, is stronger than heroin and morphine. Lucy Cormack. The effect of the prescription drug on which music star Prince overdosed is up to 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin. Fentanyl, an opioid, is prescribed for the treatment of chronic pain, often following major trauma, nerve damage or cancer. Up Next.
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MTHFR genetic mutation â what it is and how it can affect you And via that study, they discovered that an important gene towards your health and well-being, called the MTHFR gene, aka methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase was defective in a lot of folks worldwide! Some state more than 60% (and yes most of us end up calling it the dirty word gene–lol).
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10 Most Dangerous Drugs In The World Known as the queen of all drugs, heroin is the most harmful drug in the world. The amount of dopamine released in the brain while on heroin is about a hundred times more than the amount released during an orgasm. Lighter drugs like methamphetamine is administered to reduce the withdrawal effects from heroin.hey also come under the tag of deadliest drugs in the world. Here are the 10 most harmful drugs in the world. Read on... The drugs in the list are ranked in ascending order of their deadly quotient.
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The Controlled Substances Act (CSA): Overview Drugs classified in Schedule 1 are considered the most harmful substances with no medical benefits, and the rest descend from there: 1  Schedule 1: Examples of Schedule 1 drugs include Ecstasy, LSD, and Heroin. 2  Schedule 2: Examples of Schedule 2 drugs include Cocaine and Morphine.
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Top 10 Most Popular Recreational Drugs Perhaps the most insidious of all drugs, Heroin, or Diamorphine is a derivative of Morphine, an opiate, first used as an alternative to Morphine as it was thought to be less addictive. The name Heroin, is a Trade name for Diamorphine and was used by the Bayer pharmaceutical company in the mid 1800’s.
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Prescription Drugs Are More Deadly Than Street Drugs Prescription drug abuse and addiction kill far more people in the U.S. every year than all illegal drugs combined. The unprecedented rise in overdose deaths in the U.S. parallels a 300 percent increase since 1999 in the sale of powerful painkillers such as Vicodin and OxyContin.
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Top 10 Most Commonly Used Illegal Drugs Most common drug that is used worldwide is Heroin. Heroin is made from the extracts of the plant opium poppy. Heroin is taken through an injection and it directly enters the blood stream. From the blood it reaches the brain where it forces the release of endorphin hormones like serotonin.
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- Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: Legally, the most potent sleeping pill for humans is Halcion-dosages start at 0.125mg (It is a benzodiazepine like Valium or Restoril, but has a VERY short half-life which makes it suitable for sleep.
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- A nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental, an anesthetic that is part of the three-drug cocktail used in lethal injections, has thrown capital punishment in the United States into disarray, delaying executions and forcing the change of execution protocols in several states.
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5 Myths About Illegal Drugs You Probably Believe Drugs on the lower left are safer, while ones to the upper right are dangerous-er. Note that everyone's favorite natural drug, marijuana, is just about on par with perhaps the very definition of a synthetic drug -- LSD -- in terms of lethality, while being higher up the dependence ladder.