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Drug Facts

  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • 8.6% of 12th graders have used hallucinogens 4% report on using LSD specifically.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Crystal meth comes in clear chunky crystals resembling ice and is most commonly smoked.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Crack comes in solid blocks or crystals varying in color from yellow to pale rose or white.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • High dosages of ketamine can lead to the feeling of an out of body experience or even death.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.

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