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Drug Facts

  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Marijuana is actually dangerous, impacting the mind by causing memory loss and reducing ability.
  • Family intervention has been found to be upwards of ninety percent successful and professionally conducted interventions have a success rate of near 98 percent.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.

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