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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • 55% of all inhalant-related deaths are nearly instantaneous, known as 'Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome.'
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • 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.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.

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