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Drug Facts

  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Approximately 1.3 million people in Utah reported Methamphetamine use in the past year, and 512,000 reported current or use within in the past month.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • 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
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.

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