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Drug Facts

  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • 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.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Psychic side effects of hallucinogens include the disassociation of time and space.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • 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.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.

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