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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • In 2014, over 913,000 people were reported to be addicted to cocaine.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • 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.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.

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