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Drug Facts

  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • 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.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.

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