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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • 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.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • Steroid use can lead to clogs in the blood vessels, which can then lead to strokes and heart disease.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • Alcohol-Impaired-Driving Fatality: A fatality in a crash involving a driver or motorcycle rider (operator) with a BAC of 0.08 g/dL or greater.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.

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