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Drug Facts

  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.

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