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Drug Facts

  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.

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