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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Ecstasy comes in a tablet form and is usually swallowed. The pills come in different colours and sizes and are often imprinted with a picture or symbol1. It can also come as capsules, powder or crystal/rock.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.

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