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Drug Facts

  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Bath Salts cause brain swelling, delirium, seizures, liver failure and heart attacks.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.

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