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Drug Facts

  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • In 2013, more high school seniors regularly used marijuana than cigarettes as 22.7% smoked pot in the last month, compared to 16.3% who smoked cigarettes.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • There are confidential rehab facilities which treat celebrities and executives so they you can get clean without the paparazzi or business associates finding out.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • 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.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Prescription medication should always be taken under the supervision of a doctor, even then, it must be noted that they can be a risk to the unborn child.
  • 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
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.

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