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Drug Facts

  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • 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.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • 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
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.

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