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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Studies show that 11 percent of male high schoolers have reported using Steroids at least once.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • There are approximately 5,000 LSD-related emergency room visits per year.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.

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