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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • 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.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Ecstasy can stay in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • 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.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Over 53 Million Opiate-based prescriptions are filled each year.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.

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