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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • 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.
  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.

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