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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Crack Cocaine is categorized next to PCP and Meth as an illegal Schedule II drug.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.

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