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Drug Facts

  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • 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.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • In 2013, more high school seniors regularly used marijuana than cigarettes as 22.7% smoked pot in the last month, compared to 16.3% who smoked cigarettes.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.

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