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Drug Facts

  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • 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.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.

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