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Drug Facts

  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • 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.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • 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
  • Other names of Cocaine include C, coke, nose candy, snow, white lady, toot, Charlie, blow, white dust or stardust.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.

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