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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports 85 percent of inmates arrive at the state prison with a history of substance abuse.
  • Cigarettes can kill you and they are the leading preventable cause of death.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • 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.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • 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.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • 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.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.

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