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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • Every day, we have over 8,100 NEW drug users in America. That's 3.1 million new users every year.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • 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.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 31% of rock star deaths are related to drugs or alcohol.
  • Over 23.5 million people are in need of treatment for illegal drugs like Flakka.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.

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