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Drug Facts

  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • There are many types of drug and alcohol rehab available throughout the world.
  • 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.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.

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