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Drug Facts

  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.

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