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Drug Facts

  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • 8.6% of 12th graders have used hallucinogens 4% report on using LSD specifically.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal

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