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Drug Facts

  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • 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.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • 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.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.

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