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Drug Facts

  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • LSD (or its full name: lysergic acid diethylamide) is a potent hallucinogen that dramatically alters your thoughts and your perception of reality.

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