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Drug Facts

  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • There are many types of drug and alcohol rehab available throughout the world.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • 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
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.

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