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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • Alcohol Abuse is the 3rd leading cause of preventable deaths in the U.S with over 88,000 cases of Alcohol related deaths.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • 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.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.

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