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Drug Facts

  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Cocaine use can cause the placenta to separate from the uterus, causing internal bleeding.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • 8.6% of 12th graders have used hallucinogens 4% report on using LSD specifically.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • 5,477 individuals were found guilty of crack cocaine-related crimes. More than 95% of these offenders had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.

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