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Drug Facts

  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • 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.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Its rock form is far more addictive and potent than its powder form.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.

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