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Drug Facts

12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
Prescription drug spending increased 9.0% to $324.6 billion in 2015, slower than the 12.4% growth in 2014.
Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.

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