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Drug Facts

  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Coke Bugs or Snow Bugs are an illusion of bugs crawling underneath one's skin and often experienced by Crack Cocaine users.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous and potent drugs, with the great potential of causing seizures and heart-related injuries such as stopping the heart, whether one is a short term or long term user.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.

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