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Drug Facts

  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.

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