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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • 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.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • In 2012, over 16 million adults were prescribed Adderall.
  • Ecstasy can stay in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.

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