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Drug Facts

  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.

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