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Drug Facts

  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • 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
  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • Those who complete prison-based treatment and continue with treatment in the community have the best outcomes.
  • 28% of teens know at least 1 person who has tried ecstasy.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • 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.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Never, absolutely NEVER, buy drugs over the internet. It is not as safe as walking into a pharmacy. You honestly do not know what you are going to get or who is going to intervene in the online message.

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