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Drug Facts

  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • 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.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Ecstasy comes in a tablet form and is usually swallowed. The pills come in different colours and sizes and are often imprinted with a picture or symbol1. It can also come as capsules, powder or crystal/rock.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.

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