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Drug Facts

  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Because of the tweaker's unpredictability, there have been reports that they can react violently, which can lead to involvement in domestic disputes, spur-of-the-moment crimes, or motor vehicle accidents.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Over 13 million individuals abuse stimulants like Dexedrine.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • Prescription drug spending increased 9.0% to $324.6 billion in 2015, slower than the 12.4% growth in 2014.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.

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