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Drug Facts

  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • 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.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • 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.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Even if you smoke just a few cigarettes a week, you can get addicted to nicotine in a few weeks or even days. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely you are to become addicted.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Bath Salt use has been linked to violent behavior, however not all stories are violent.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.

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