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Drug Facts

  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • 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.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.

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