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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • Texas is one of the hardest states on drug offenses.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • GHB is a popular drug at teen parties and "raves".
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.

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