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Drug Facts

  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.
  • 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.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • Using Crack Cocaine, even once, can result in life altering addiction.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Cocaine has long been used for its ability to boost energy, relieve fatigue and lessen hunger.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • Meth users often have bad teeth from poor oral hygiene, dry mouth as meth can crack and deteriorate teeth.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Inhalants are a form of drug use that is entirely too easy to get and more lethal than kids comprehend.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.

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