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Drug Facts

  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Penalties for possession, delivery and manufacturing of Ecstasy can include jail sentences of four years to life, and fines from $250,000 to $4 million, depending on the amount of the drug you have in your possession.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.

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