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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Cocaine comes in two forms. One is a powder and the other is a rock. The rock form of cocaine is referred to as crack cocaine.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.

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