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Drug Facts

  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • 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
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • 5,477 individuals were found guilty of crack cocaine-related crimes. More than 95% of these offenders had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Half of all Ambien related ER visits involved other drug interaction.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.

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