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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • 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.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Over 53 Million Opiate-based prescriptions are filled each year.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.

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