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Drug Facts

  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • 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.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Penalties for possession, delivery and manufacturing of Ecstasy can include jail sentences of four years to life, and fines from $250,000 to $4 million, depending on the amount of the drug you have in your possession.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.

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