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Drug Facts

  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 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.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.

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