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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • 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.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.

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