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Drug Facts

  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Mixing Adderall with Alcohol increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • 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.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • 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.

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