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Drug Facts

  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Over 20 million individuals were abusing Darvocet before any limitations were put on the drug.

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