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Drug Facts

  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • 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 usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • 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.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.

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