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Drug Facts

  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • 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.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Oxycodone stays in the system 1-10 days.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Crystal meth comes in clear chunky crystals resembling ice and is most commonly smoked.

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