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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.

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