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Drug Facts

  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • 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
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • 55% of all inhalant-related deaths are nearly instantaneous, known as 'Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome.'
  • 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.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.

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