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Drug Facts

  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • 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.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous and potent drugs, with the great potential of causing seizures and heart-related injuries such as stopping the heart, whether one is a short term or long term user.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Authority receive over 10,500 reports of clonazepam abuse every year, and the rate is increasing.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • About 1 in 4 college students report academic consequences from drinking, including missing class, falling behind in class, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.30
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.

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