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Drug Facts

  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.

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