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Drug Facts

  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • According to a new survey, nearly two thirds of young women in the United Kingdom admitted to binge drinking so excessively they had no memory of the night before the next morning.
  • After hitting the market, Ativan was used to treat insomnia, vertigo, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man.
  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.

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