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Drug Facts

  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • The U.S. utilizes over 65% of the world's supply of Dilaudid.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.

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