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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • 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.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Bath Salt use has been linked to violent behavior, however not all stories are violent.
  • Methamphetamine can cause cardiac damage, elevates heart rate and blood pressure, and can cause a variety of cardiovascular problems, including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure.

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