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Drug Facts

  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • 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.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.

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