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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Prescription medication should always be taken under the supervision of a doctor, even then, it must be noted that they can be a risk to the unborn child.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • 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.
  • Marijuana is actually dangerous, impacting the mind by causing memory loss and reducing ability.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Drugs and alcohol do not discriminate no matter what your gender, race, age or political affiliation addiction can affect you if you let it.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.

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