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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • 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.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Emergency room admissions due to Subutex abuse has risen by over 200% in just three years.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '

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