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Drug Facts

  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • 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.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • 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.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.

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