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Drug Facts

  • Over 23.5 million people are in need of treatment for illegal drugs like Flakka.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • 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.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • Bath salts contain man-made stimulants called cathinone's, which are like amphetamines.
  • The U.S. poisoned industrial Alcohols made in the country, killing a whopping 10,000 people in the process.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.

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