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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Women in bars can suffer from sexually aggressive acts if they are drinking heavily.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • Between 2000 and 2006 the average number of alcohol related motor vehicle crashes in Utah resulting in death was approximately 59, resulting in an average of nearly 67 fatalities per year.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.

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