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Drug Facts

  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.

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