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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • Over 13 million individuals abuse stimulants like Dexedrine.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • 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.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.

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