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Drug Facts

  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • 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.
  • In 2014, over 913,000 people were reported to be addicted to cocaine.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Ambien can cause severe allergic reactions such as hives, breathing problems and swelling of the mouth, tongue and throat.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.

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