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Drug Facts

  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 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
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.

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