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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Steroid use can lead to clogs in the blood vessels, which can then lead to strokes and heart disease.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • 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.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • 12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine.
  • Nearly 2/3 of those found in addiction recovery centers report sexual or physical abuse as children.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.

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