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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Adderall is popular on college campuses, with black markets popping up to supply the demand of students.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • 31% of rock star deaths are related to drugs or alcohol.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • 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.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.

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