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Drug Facts

  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • 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.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 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.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.

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