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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • 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.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • There are innocent people behind bars because of the drug conspiracy laws.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Gangs, whether street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs or even prison gangs, distribute more drugs on the streets of the U.S. than any other person or persons do.
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.

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