Drug Facts

70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
Ecstasy can cause you to dehydrate.
Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.