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Drug Facts

  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.

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