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Drug Facts

  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • 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.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 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.
  • Oxycodone comes in a number of forms including capsules, tablets, liquid and suppositories. It also comes in a variety of strengths.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.

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