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Drug Facts

  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 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.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Cocaine use can cause the placenta to separate from the uterus, causing internal bleeding.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted

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