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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • In 2014, over 354,000 U.S. citizens were daily users of Crack.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Marijuana is actually dangerous, impacting the mind by causing memory loss and reducing ability.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.

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