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Drug Facts

  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Marijuana can stay in a person's system for 3-5 days, however, if you are a heavy user, it can be detected up to 30 days.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.

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