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Drug Facts

  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • 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.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Subutex use has increased by over 66% within just two years.
  • Alcohol-Impaired-Driving Fatality: A fatality in a crash involving a driver or motorcycle rider (operator) with a BAC of 0.08 g/dL or greater.
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Oxycodone comes in a number of forms including capsules, tablets, liquid and suppositories. It also comes in a variety of strengths.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.

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