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Drug Facts

  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.

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