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Drug Facts

  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Meth users often have bad teeth from poor oral hygiene, dry mouth as meth can crack and deteriorate teeth.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Marijuana can stay in a person's system for 3-5 days, however, if you are a heavy user, it can be detected up to 30 days.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Crack Cocaine is categorized next to PCP and Meth as an illegal Schedule II drug.

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