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Drug Facts

  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • 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.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • According to a new survey, nearly two thirds of young women in the United Kingdom admitted to binge drinking so excessively they had no memory of the night before the next morning.
  • 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.
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.

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