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Drug Facts

  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Nearly 2/3 of those found in addiction recovery centers report sexual or physical abuse as children.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • 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.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.

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