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Drug Facts

  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • 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.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine in their lifetime.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.

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