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Drug Facts

  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • In 2014, there were over 39,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths in the United States
  • 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 can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine, which normally comes in a powder form.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.

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