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Drug Facts

  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Interventions can facilitate the development of healthy interpersonal relationships and improve the participant's ability to interact with family, peers, and others in the community.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • 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.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • In 2014, over 913,000 people were reported to be addicted to cocaine.

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