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Drug Facts

  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • LSD can stay in one's system from a few hours to five days.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.

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