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Drug Facts

  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.

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