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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • In 2014, there were over 39,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths in the United States
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • About 1 in 4 college students report academic consequences from drinking, including missing class, falling behind in class, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.30
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.

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