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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • 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.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • The U.N. suspects that over 9 million people actively use ecstasy worldwide.

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