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Drug Facts

  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • 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.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.

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