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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • In 2007 The California Department of Toxic Substance Control was responsible for clandestine meth lab cleanup costs in Butte County totaling $26,876.00.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • After hitting the market, Ativan was used to treat insomnia, vertigo, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Crack Cocaine is the riskiest form of a Cocaine substance.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • 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.

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