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Drug Facts

  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.

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