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Drug Facts

  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Over 750,000 people have used LSD within the past year.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • 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.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine, which normally comes in a powder form.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.

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