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Drug Facts

  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29

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