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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • 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.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • Cocaine hydrochloride is most commonly snorted. It can also be injected, rubbed into the gums, added to drinks or food.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.

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