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Drug Facts

  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.
  • In 2010, 42,274 emergency rooms visits were due to Ambien.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.

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