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Drug Facts

  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • 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.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Alcohol-Impaired-Driving Fatality: A fatality in a crash involving a driver or motorcycle rider (operator) with a BAC of 0.08 g/dL or greater.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • 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.

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