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Drug Facts

  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • 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
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.

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