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Drug Facts

  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Other names of Cocaine include C, coke, nose candy, snow, white lady, toot, Charlie, blow, white dust or stardust.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • There are innocent people behind bars because of the drug conspiracy laws.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1

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