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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • 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 drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • 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.
  • Almost 38 million people have admitted to have used cocaine in their lifetime.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • Mixing Adderall with Alcohol increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.

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