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in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • LSD (or its full name: lysergic acid diethylamide) is a potent hallucinogen that dramatically alters your thoughts and your perception of reality.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 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.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.

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