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Drug Facts

  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.

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