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Drug Facts

  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Meth users often have bad teeth from poor oral hygiene, dry mouth as meth can crack and deteriorate teeth.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • 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.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine. If you're a teenager, your risk is especially high.
  • Between 2000 and 2006 the average number of alcohol related motor vehicle crashes in Utah resulting in death was approximately 59, resulting in an average of nearly 67 fatalities per year.

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