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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
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Illegal drug use is declining while prescription drug abuse is rising thanks to online pharmacies and illegal selling.
  • Between 2000 and 2006 the average number of alcohol related motor vehicle crashes in Utah resulting in death was approximately 59, resulting in an average of nearly 67 fatalities per year.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Nearly 2/3 of those found in addiction recovery centers report sexual or physical abuse as children.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • 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.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.

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