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Drug Facts

  • Even if you smoke just a few cigarettes a week, you can get addicted to nicotine in a few weeks or even days. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely you are to become addicted.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • 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.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Taking Steroids raises the risk of aggression and irritability to over 56 percent.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Women in bars can suffer from sexually aggressive acts if they are drinking heavily.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.

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