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Drug Facts

  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • In addition, users may have cracked teeth due to extreme jaw-clenching during a Crystral Meth high.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • In 2014, over 354,000 U.S. citizens were daily users of Crack.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • 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'.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • 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).
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.

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