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Drug Facts

  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • 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.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.

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