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Drug Facts

  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.

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