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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Approximately 28% of Utah adults 18-25 indicated binge drinking in the past months of 2006.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Ketamine hydrochloride, or 'K,' is a powerful anesthetic designed for use during operations and medical procedures.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".

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