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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • 33.1 percent of 15-year-olds report that they have had at least 1 drink in their lives.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • 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.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Ketamine hydrochloride, or 'K,' is a powerful anesthetic designed for use during operations and medical procedures.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.

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