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Drug Facts

  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.

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