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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines,2 marijuana and heroin.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • 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.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Millions of dollars per month are spent trafficking illegal drugs.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal

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