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Drug Facts

  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Illegal drug use is declining while prescription drug abuse is rising thanks to online pharmacies and illegal selling.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • 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.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.

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