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Drug Facts

  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • 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.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • In the year 2006 a total of 13,693 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs in Arkansas.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • 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.
  • Over 53 Million Oxycodone prescriptions are filled each year.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted

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