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Drug Facts

  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine, which normally comes in a powder form.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • 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.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Marijuana is actually dangerous, impacting the mind by causing memory loss and reducing ability.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.

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