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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Ambien is a sedative-hypnotic known to cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and death.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.

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