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Drug Facts

  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Prescription medication should always be taken under the supervision of a doctor, even then, it must be noted that they can be a risk to the unborn child.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • 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.

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