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Drug Facts

  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • 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.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • 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.
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • In 1860, the United States was home to 1,138 Alcohol distilleries that produced over 88 million gallons each year.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Ketamine is popular at dance clubs and "raves", unfortunately, some people (usually female) are not aware they have been dosed.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • Approximately 28% of Utah adults 18-25 indicated binge drinking in the past months of 2006.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.

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