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Drug Facts

  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.

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