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Drug Facts

  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Second hand smoke can kill you. In the U.S. alone over 3,000 people die every year from cancer caused by second hand smoke.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • 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
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • 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.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.

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