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Drug Facts

  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • 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.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • In Alabama during the year 2006 a total of 20,340 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Bath Salts cause brain swelling, delirium, seizures, liver failure and heart attacks.
  • Nearly 2/3 of those found in addiction recovery centers report sexual or physical abuse as children.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • In 2007 The California Department of Toxic Substance Control was responsible for clandestine meth lab cleanup costs in Butte County totaling $26,876.00.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.

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