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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
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.
  • In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.
  • Ecstasy is one of the most popular drugs among youth today.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • 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.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to dehydrate.

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