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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.

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