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Drug Facts

  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • Over 53 Million Opiate-based prescriptions are filled each year.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.

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