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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.
  • Cigarettes can kill you and they are the leading preventable cause of death.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Gangs, whether street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs or even prison gangs, distribute more drugs on the streets of the U.S. than any other person or persons do.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man.

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