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Drug Facts

  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Methamphetamine can cause cardiac damage, elevates heart rate and blood pressure, and can cause a variety of cardiovascular problems, including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 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.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.

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