1. Heroin

It’s the most addictive drug on the planet right now! Heroin can trick your mind into a desperate craving for the drug. According to NSDUH findings, 2012, “An estimated 467,000 people are addicted to heroin in the US.” No matter how heroin gets into your system, but it reaches your brain quickly. You can get addicted to heroin by using it just once or twice. It can be very difficult to stop yourself from using again.

2. Crack Cocaine

It is the purest form of cocaine. This is the reason why addiction rates of Crack Cocaine is higher than processed cocaine. As per 2010 collected data, it is estimated that there are approximately 500,000 active crack cocaine addicts in the United States.

3. Nicotine

Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs and is widely spread all over the world. According to CDC reports, “There are around 50,000,000 active nicotine addicts in the US.” In the United States, nicotine smoking causes approximately 1,300 deaths every day!

4. Methadone

It is a prescription drug that is widely used to treat heroin addiction. However, a user can easily become addicted to methadone due to its euphoric effects. People grow a tolerance to this drug pretty quickly and in order to get a better fix, people try to up their intake, this result in overdose and death. According to CDC report 2010, “Methadone was involved in 31.4% of OPR deaths in the 13 states. The overdose death rate for methadone was significantly greater than that for other OPR for multidrug and single-drug deaths.”

5. Alcohol

Alcohol addiction is hard to describe. Due to its widespread availability in almost every social scenario, alcohol is turning out to be one of the most deadly substances consumed in the US. It is even considered to be the cause of the maximum number of deaths in the US.

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